Never has Campbell County changed more — including energy booms — than it did 95 years ago when the Homestead Act of 1916 doubled the size of its wild land up for grabs.People from across … 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

Twenty-two years ago, a coal miner and a saddle maker decided to move 22 miles north of Gillette to take over the 109-year-old family ranch — all because of one of Gillette’s most remarkable … more

The people who populated Campbell County a century ago were more than just adventurous souls who worked their fingers to the bone. A small bunch of families from Missouri became the best kind of … more

The spunk and fortitude of Irish soldiers and sailors has helped six generations hold onto the 100-year-old McCreery ranch south of Gillette.Not only has the ranch survived for a century on just … more

The Kuhbachers have always looked ahead. Since Julius Kuhbacher heeded a letter inviting him to join Nebraska friends homesteading near Rocky Point, generations of Kuhbachers have toiled to … more

Seven generations of Fitches have strengthened the place they call home, the Fitch Ranch. more

The Sundance Kid encountered Butch Cassidy while working for what’s now Bishop Land and Livestock, but plenty more illustrious characters have inhabited the Campbell County ranch over the past … more

Elias Whitcomb’s only son, Harold, or “Little Whit,” had been born in 1894 just a year after his niece, Marjorie Badgett. At the time, his father bought the pair Shetland ponies and … more

It’s questionable whether any old rifle pits still exist in the Powder River Breaks between Echeta Road and the Johnson County line. But while those early fortifications against hostile Sioux … more