Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
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BUFFALO - Snow covers the alfalfa field as the sun's first light creates a soft, golden glow. The air is still, and a calm hangs over the field. A single rifle shot shatters the silence. Rachel Ryan, a 29-year-old weightlifting and fitness teacher lowers her .243 rifle. After recovering from hip reconstruction surgery, months of physical therapy and hours of pain, she's finally here, successfully harvesting an antelope. She's waited years for this moment. The Wyoming Women's Antelope Hunt is a...
BUFFALO — Convicted murder Donald C. Davis won an appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court, which may set him free. On a September day in 1982, Donald C. Davis, then 17, and Robert G. Cotton, 19, picked up Randall Shoptwese, an 18-year-old Native American hitchhiker from Montana. The following morning, Shoptwese's body was discovered on Mayoworth Road, approximately halfway between Buffalo and Kaycee, a half mile off U.S. Highway 87. His hands had been cuffed behind his back and his head had nearly been severed from a buck knife wound. Davis and C...