Hardship and poverty were just part of pioneering for most of Campbell County’s first residents, but it took decades of fierce loyalty between two German families to tame the frontier around … more

Few people born in the past half-century know that Campbell County had a significant early Scottish population. John Grant, a great-great-grandson of Lord Johnston of Edinborough, Scotland, … more

It’s likely that Recluse, Wyo., would never have survived the past 97 years if not for a band of renegade Indians on the Powder River.They had escaped their reservation, and the cavalry wanted … more

J.F. “Fred” Davis didn’t plan on homesteading in Campbell County when he first made the difficult 10-day trip to Wyoming in a Model-T Ford and trailer in 1916 or 1917. The former U.S. … more

The true spirit of adventure and hard work is no more evident in any Campbell County pioneer than in the Danish plasterer’s son who landed in tiny Spotted Horse more than 100 years ago. The … more

More than a century before Campbell County became the leading oil producer in a state that ranked seventh last year in production, it had actual oil prospectors. From 1872 through 1920, anyone over … more

William M. Oliver was passionate about his ranch. That’s evident from the work he put in from the day he moved onto his 160-acre plot near Horse Creek, north of Gillette in 1900, until the day … more

Three ranches near Rozet were given by Elias Whitcomb to his three daughters in the 1880s, one of which one still boasts the one of the most majestic original ranch houses in Campbell County.Tragedy … more

If the famed King Ranch in Texas is the birthplace of American ranching, then the 126-year-old Norfolk Ranch on Horse Creek is the King Ranch of Campbell County. From 1886 through 1930, head … more

If land could tell stories, the Cain Ranch tales would never end. The spread on Campbell County’s Bitter Creek began as a part of an open-range cattle empire in 1879, grazed for 40 years by a … more