“Do you know why they’re called the “Pumpkin Buttes?’” asks Bob Christensen as he rumbles up the side of a ridge near one of Campbell County’s famous flat-topped buttes in his 1980 Dodge … more

Campbell County’s pioneers did whatever it took to make it, but none was more versatile than John “Dutch” Henry Thar, whose family today packs the same work ethic and entrepreneurial … more

Elmer Zigler was an outlaw with an alias and a penchant for avoiding the hoosegow. He had a pregnant Indian wife, and his buddy, Frank Smith, had a place — a hideout, if you will — in a concealed … 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

His old legs bowed from his many years on a horse, Mexican John reached out his aging, gnarled hand to feed a fawn. It was the same hand the cowhand used when he broke horses and trailed cattle for a … more

It’s roughly 40 degrees at dawn in October, and the stiff breeze is cutting like a knife southeast of Rozet. The early morning cloud cover matches Chad … more

Her ranch is nearly all gone, sold off bit by bit around her as blizzards obliterated the sheep. She’s suffered divorce, disharmony and death again and again in her family, yet Harriet (Reno) … more

It’s difficult in the 21st century to find a place any further in the middle of nowhere than Campbell County’s T-Chair Ranch. But that’s just how “Pumpkin Butte” Brown liked … more

In the front cover of a tattered blue book detailing the Prussian ancestors of one of Campbell County’s first residents is a handwritten inscription. It was penned by the man’s … more

Jayne Harris Voiles loved the pasture in Spring Creek and her family’s Indian heritage. Her wish was to be buried on an Indian scaffold in that part of her 15,489-acre ranch, the oldest in … more