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Just outside of Tie Siding, Wyo., a one-ton pickup truck drifted across the center line of U.S. 287 and slammed into their SUV, ripping the top off and launching the passengers through the air. All eight of them died instantly...
...found it at an outfitter's shop in Jackson Hole, Wyo.: the trademark cowboy coat that he bought for himself, which was included in his first catalog, launched in 1987. The catalog had already become a Hollywood favorite when its kitschy prose--initially written by Manhattan marketing consultant Don Staley--caught the eye of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Seinfeld co-creator Larry David, who owned some Peterman clothes. "We used to laugh about it all the time," David says of the prose. "When I knew we had to get Elaine [the character played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus...
Pete Dube, who is from Buffalo, Wyo., pulls up in a pickup hauling a trailer with six horses and looks out across his land. In 1995, when he bought the 5,000-acre ranch in the Middle Prong Valley of the Powder River basin, nothing much disturbed the landscape except the deer, the pronghorn and the few cows that grazed the rolling hills and valleys...
...calls it "the play," a stratagem that deploys the ranchers who lease out their land, the crews who drill a well in three days, the landmen who track down mineral rights in hundred-year-old ledgers in county clerks' offices and the lawyers, contractors and equipment suppliers in Gillette, Wyo., who will be making a killing for as long as the boom lasts. Environmentalists worry about damage to the land from the drilling, but everyone agrees that burning natural gas generates far fewer pollutants than oil or coal. "This is a very exciting play," says Terry Dobkins, a vice president...
Galvin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, spent her early years living in Italy, but considers her real home Laramie, Wyo., where she was much more likely to be found riding a horse than taking...