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South MEETS DIXIE JEWETT’S

Clippity CLOP

WEST Dynamic Duo Ride Railyard’s Cattle Car

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Contents 28 TOP GUNS

Steph dodges the weasel trick box for a fun Q&A with T&T Guns & Ammo, Inc. Tammy Townsend.

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We get behind 4-H member and CCF Clover Kid Garrett Steele as he practice-fires his Browning Citori XT.

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Cowboy up for this summer’s hottest hit list of all our favorite artisan items available locally for under $100.

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Downtown Gillette’s Railyard restaurant’s dynamic duo are heating up the kitchen with Cajun and southern-inspired eats.

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Editor’s Steph + Jen are back at it with another awesome edition of their monthly must-reads.

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The Art Scupture Name: "Clippity Clop" Artist Name: Medium:

Dixie Jewett

Welded Steel

Dimensions:

10' x 11'

Inspiration: The artist's joy in

seeing horses in animation; she likes to think Clippity Clop is very curious, happy and interested in whatever it is that he is off to.

16th Annual Avenues of Art Reception Please join us for an opportunity to view the selected art sculptures and meet the Artists.

Light appetizers will be served; cash bar available.

Friday, June 21st @ 4 p.m. • Saturday, June 22nd @ 10 a.m.

Gillette College Campus - www.donkeycreekfestival.com

Mayor's Art Council (MAC) is a City of Gillette Citizen Advisory Board.

MAC was created in 2003 with the mission to create a more visually pleasing environment and expand the opportunities for residents and visitors to experience quality works of art in public places. Among its several programs, the Board is responsible for continuing Avenues of Art.

Avenues of Art was created to exhibit artwork on Gillette’s main streets throughout the community. Board members solicit private sponsorships for artist stipends and then select sculptures to be provided "on-loan" to the City for one year for public display. New pieces are unveiled at a reception held on Friday evening of the annual Donkey Creek Festival.

Friday, June 21, 2019 – 5:30 p.m.

Gillette College – Technical Education Center 3251 South 4J Road, Gillette, Wyoming

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IN HONOR

We honor the life of Campbell County Fair Coordinator, Ms. Bobbi Jo Heald (center).

Grit & Grace No matter how hard the wind blows in Wyoming, it will not tear Gillette away from its roots

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n many ways, unlike Denver in neighboring Colorado, which is a lovely place to visit, the 82717 exudes more traditional lifestyle values like picking one’s self up by their own bootstraps, helping our neighbors and choosing to do what’s right over what’s popular while producing 40 percent of the nation’s energy and keeping alive our rich agricultural and ranching roots.

With this issue, our second-annual Western, we celebrate the 82717, its people and way of life.

We meet high-achieving 4-H and FFA members, who we’ve dubbed Campbell County Fair Clover Kids, and who will be shooting for blue ribbons at fair this summer. We tour Koehler’s Wild Game & Custom Processing and go behind the scenes of their American dream come to fruition with a view from inside their family-owned and operated carving and slicing operation off Highway 50. It’s also fitting that we speak with critically-acclaimed author, Ron Franscell, whose deep ties to the Cowboy State have sparked the rising of several award-winning, true crime books like his latest, Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story.

Then take a bite out of the Railyard’s South Meets West culinary fusion scene as our own Features Writter Jen Kocher talks with General Manager Trey McConnell and Chef Jeremiah Zimmerman at the budding downtown eatery. Get a sneak peek at “Clippity Clop,” the immense 11-foot metal horse sculpture coming to Gillette’s Avenue of the Arts that’s not yet been revealed by the Mayor’s Art Council ... until now.

Inside, there’s also our team’s top picks for Western summer shopping. All local. All supporting 82717 artisans and businesses. We invite you, our readers, friends and neighbors, to join us in bowing our heads for a moment of pause to remember the life of a beloved community advocate, Ms. Bobbi Jo Heald.

She lived a life filled with grit and grace. In so many ways, her love of community, education, showmanship and agriculture represent what the 82717’s all about.

By: Stephanie L. Scarcliff

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Editorial CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Erika C. Christensen MARKETING DIRECTOR Stephanie L. Scarcliff CHIEF OF STAFF Lisa A. Shrefler SALES Jessica L. Pierce Jason N. Kasperik CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer C. Kocher ART DIRECTOR Richard W. Massman DESIGNER Candice E. Schlautmann PHOTOGRAPHER Adam D. Ritterbush

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“Clippity Clop” metal horse sculpture by artist Dixie Jewett relocates to Gillette this summer from El Paso, Texas, to join the Mayor’s Art Council Avenue of the Arts, sponsored by Ida Snead State Farm Insurance and MC Aegis, LLC. See other new works revealed and meet the artists at the 16th Annual Avenues of Art Reception during the Donkey Creek Festival Friday, June 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Gillette College Tech Center.

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Clover Kids In this issue, we continue our Campbell County Fair “Clover Kids” series, where we invite you to follow along with local 4-H’ers of all ages and competitive classes as they train their livestock and prepare their projects in anticipation for the upcoming Campbell County Fair, beginning July 26 through August 4.

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Find and share your progress — from beef to cake decorating — by scrolling through our #ccfcloverkids hashtag on Instagram.

It’s serious fun!

More online at 82717Life.com There are more great things happening online! From local events to added features from award-winning contributors and community mavens, along with exclusive video discussions about the stories you see here in print, we’ve got it going on all month long at 82717Life.com.

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As a small part of a greater effort to celebrate agricultural and the rural lifestyle that constitutes the backbone of this community, we’ve launched the new Campbell County Fair Clover Kids campaign (CCFCloverKids), where friends, family, and the community of Gillette and Campbell County are introduced to local 4H’ers and invited to follow along as they train their livestock and prepare their projects for the Campbell County Fair 2019, beginning July 26 through Aug. 4.

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t takes a lot of practice to become really good at something, and it’s clear that Garrett Steele has put in a lot of time at the firing range. Squinting with one eye closed, the 18-year-old popped off round after round on his 12-gauge Browning Citori XT, exploding one neon orange “pigeon” after the next as they soared down range. Nonchalantly, he discarded the spent shell in a mesh bag hanging from his belt, then reloaded for the next shot.

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kids his age and younger on the cement pad. Each patiently waited their turn while a handful of junkie-adrenalin real birds nose-dived in between shots like Kamikazes. Some days, Garrett has even seen an antelope snoozing in the grass just out of firing range, as if taunting them.

Skeet shooting is just one of the 4-H activities Garrett competes in each summer at the Campbell County Fair. Not only does he not miss any pigeons that night, he pretty much doesn’t miss much at all at this point. He’s that good.

He picked up his first rifle at age 2 and hasn’t stopped shooting since. Right now, he’s one of eight kids on the Wyoming State Trap Association team that has competed nationally for the last several years.

“He’s always loved anything that goes boom or bang,” Garrett’s Dad Josh said as he watched his son

explode another clay disc. “He’s put in a lot of time getting that good.”

Josh is proud of his son, he added, and simultaneously heartbroken to know in just a couple of months Garrett will be moving to Laramie to attend diesel mechanic school at Wyotech. Along with a shared love of guns, the two are also hunting buddies and spend at least half of the year tromping around in the woods and fields together. They live in a trailer in Wright and get out as much as they can.

Josh and Garrett also volunteer their time to help the younger 4-H kids, which Josh will continue doing once Garrett’s gone. He’s glad to be able to stay involved with the program while Garrett appreciates helping the younger kids hone their skills.

“The hardest part is making yourself stay focused,” he said. That and being patient.

For Garrett, the competitions are only a part of what drives him. He loves the social outlet and getting together with other 4-H’ers around the state every summer. He also likes exploring some of the other shooting sports like muzzle loading, which typically doesn’t draw a lot of kids his age. But like his dad said, he likes anything that makes noise.

Competing in 4-H events is where his true training began, and Garrett learned a lot about marksmanship and being safe. He has yet to have any accidents, unless you count the time when he was 8 and grabbed his dad’s 300 Savage that rocked him in his boots, having ignored his dad’s warning that the gun was too big for him.

Garrett shrugged. Sometimes it takes learning the hard way.

“He’s a good kid,” Josh said. And even though it’s not the cheapest hobby in the world, he noted, it’s well worth. For his son, it’s given him an athletic outlet apart from traditional school sports. It’s one of the few sports that don’t require you to be tall or a stellar athlete, he added. “You just have to practice and really want to be good at it.”

It’s also had the added benefit of keeping Garrett out of trouble and falling in with the “bad apples” at school.

“He’s never been in trouble,” Josh said of his son. “That in itself makes it well worth the cost.”

“I’m going to really miss it,” Garrett said with a shy smile. “I’ve met a lot of great friends here and it’s been a lot of fun.”

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rom a distance, the chicken appeared to be dead. Sprawled on its back in the grass with white wings tucked against its side, eyes at half-staff like a drugged patient about to go under the knife. Less than a minute ago, the same bird had been feverishly squawking in a cloud of flapping feathers as it tried to outrun young Danica Eliason’s deft grasp.

Once caught, the hen immediately became docile as Danica rubbed her chest and whispered to calm down. She did. And continued to stay still as Danica moved back a couple inches and started to stand up, at which point the trance ended and the chicken was up and running over to the sand pit to join her friends, who were debugging in the sand.

It’s safe to say that 10-year-old Danica has the magic touch. Right now, she’s trying out birds to see which one will be accompanying her to the 4-H showmanship competition at the county fair later this summer.

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This will be her fourth year competing, after her first time in the open class when she was 7, and already she’s amassed a wall full of winning ribbons. She’s always loved chickens and can remember being escorted to the livestock barns during fair by her older siblings.

Chickens, in particular, caught her fancy and she had been bugging her dad Darin to buy her a few chickens and, three years ago, he finally relented.

It was contagious. Now, 39 chickens later, Darin

has not only expanded his daughter’s chicken coop and added lots of bells and whistles, but he’s also her primary helper.

In the past couple years, Danica has brought home several grand champion ribbons and has learned a lot about chickens and life. Some lessons have been hard ones, like watching one of her favorite hens, Goldie, get bullied by the others.

Watching Goldie brood in the laying loft looking for potential eggs to sit on to hatch, hurts her

heart, Danica explained, as do the open wounds on her back from others pecking.

“But, I’ll nurse her back to health again,” Danica said, noticeably chipper as she tucked Goldie under her chin.

The best way to train the chickens for competition is to hang out with them. So, she does, a lot. It never gets old, and she likes the egg money and the cash prizes she brings home each year from fair that immediately go back into the operation.

This year, she’s also going to try her hand competing with her 1-year-old Sheltie, Bailey, who already has a good grasp on laying down and walking at her side. She and Bailey go to 4-H puppy training classes to learn the tricks of the trade, and she’s got a couple more months to get there.

By: Jen C. Kocher

Photos: Adam D. Ritterbush

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Historical Women In honor of the state’s declaration of 2019 as the Year of Wyoming Women, The Campbell County Historical Society will be printing a deck of cards to honor local, historical women. Patrons are invited to submit the name of a woman they’d like to see honored for $150 for a face card and $75 for regular. The fundraiser will go to help support other programs throughout the year. Out of the deck, there are still about 12 left for sale. The deck of cards can be purchased for $10, and will be available upon the sale of the last card. For more information, contact Charlene Busk at charbusk@gmail.com.

Anna Montgomery

Catherine M. Parks

Genevieve “Viva” Rohan

~ sponsored by Mary Kelley

~ sponsored by Nolene Wright

~ sponsored by Maggie McCreery-McCoy

Roy Montgomery married Elizabeth Frieda “Anna” Warkow, a German immigrant, in 1903.

Anna was born September 15, 1880 in Hamburg, and came to American in 1895. I chose to honor Anna Montgomery with a playing card because she was a saint, having been married to Roy Montgomery! Roy was a rowdy character. He beat up Mayor Mark Shields and took over the Mayor’s position in 1911, moving the office into Montgomery Bar. He also owned and operated a brothel, the Pea Green, for which he earned several years at Leavenworth Penitentiary. She died May 27, 1936 and is buried beside her husband Roy at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette.

Catherine was born April 27, 1920 in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of French parents, Gabriel and Marie Rangunot, and graduated from Johnson County High School in Buffalo.

Catherine married William “Bill” Parks in 1938 and served six years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and six years in the Wyoming Senate. She was also a world traveler and enjoyed painting oil and pastels, wood refinishing, bridge, golf, dominos, and fishing in the mountains. She was also a history buff, especially Wyoming and ranching history. She and Bill had three children: Bill, Helen and Jan. She died Sept. 20, 2009 and is buried at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.

Newlyweds Bert and Viva Rohan moved from Iowa to Campbell County in 1911 to make a life together.

They bought a homestead someone else had given up on, 10 miles south of Gillette. Shortly after, Bert’s parents moved to homestead next to their son.

Between 1914 and 1917, several other relatives and their families arrived from Iowa and homesteaded next door. Six generations helped hold onto the McCreery ranch that celebrated 100 years in 2011.

Viva was Irish, like the family she married into. She loved her beer and was quite a joke teller. She was part gambler, too; always right there with Bert as far as new horizons and “let’s see what happens.” Viva died in 1963 and is buried at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.

Photos courtesy Campbell County Rockpile Museum. Editor’s note: Profiles written by Mary Kelley and have been abbreviated for space.

2009.045.0020 – 1911 Portrait of Bert & Genevieve Rohan. 1995.082.0223 - Catherine Parks with her son and daughter. June, 1945.

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eading south on Highway 50, one might think their GPS is lying on their first trip to Koehler’s Wild Game & Custom Processing. Only the small red sign at the junction of Rocky Point Drive and the highway, about three miles out, marks the left-hand turn off up to the comfortable brown ranch house shrouded by leafy cottonwood trees. A second sign on the garage directs customers to the shop out back, down a gravel road about 100 feet or so from the backyard fence.

Keeping the signage in place used to be a problem for Todd Koehler after they were snagged several times over the years. Why people would steal his company signs is a mystery to him, but eventually he got smart and covered them with Anti-Seize Lubricant.

“Man, that stuff spreads and you can’t even get it off,” he said of the slimy, sticky adhesive that apparently lives up to its name.

Behind the shop parked on the gravel road alongside a neighbor’s pasture is the portable

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typical of that part of the country are the only hints that they aren’t from around here. In his old life, Todd was a mechanic for 20 years, but when the businesses’ former owner wanted to sell it, he contacted Todd to see if he’d be interested. Todd had always used the place for his processing, and with Peyton still just a kid, raising their son in Wyoming and running their own show appealed to the couple.

Todd knew nothing about processing meat when they started out, and he admits it’s been a constant learning curve. A lot of hands-on training from people who know what they’re doing and the rest, trial and error. That’s the best way to learn, he pointed out, and now it feels like second nature.

“This is about as Western as you can get,” he said, raising his hands up to the sky as he looked around him. The flat fields of grass greening up under the heat of the morning and a meadowlark adding its two cents from the top of a fence post.

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animal. That’s a big deal to him, having that trust to know that everything he takes off-site will come back to them in one form or another.

This is the only aspect of the business that Todd’s wife Lara refuses to be involved in. She went once and that was enough. Now, Peyton and Todd go alone or with a small crew on bigger jobs.

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For a guy with no ranching or farming background, Todd has comfortably slipped into this new life out in the far stretches of northeast Wyoming, where up until 15 years ago, he’d only visited once a year for hunting. They’d come each year from Minnesota, where he and Lara are from.

Their blonde coloring and slight flattening of vowels

Todd ignored the cell phone buzzing in his pocket as he meticulously worked a hunk of ribs through a bandsaw. At separate stainless-steel stations surrounding him, Lara and Peyton and their sole full-time employee Mary Jo Dunbar worked with equal concentration as they cut bacon, wrapped sirloin and squeezed homemade brats and sausages into tubes made from natural casings, which has a nice elastic snap when you bite into it. Not taking

There’s a rhythm to the carving, slicing and wrapping and the electric hum and whoosh of freezers opening and closing as products are shelved or rotated in their stock of inventory. his eyes off the task at hand, Todd sliced each beef rib into its own Medieval-size steak, complete with large bone-in handle. A couple centimeters in either direction might mean a thumb, but Todd remained undeterred as he sliced through the tendons and muscle.

“Now, this is a good steak,” he said, lifting one rib up by the handle to admire the meat and his handiwork.

These are tomahawks, he explained, and will run you upwards of $100 in a restaurant, but they sell them for $40.

On a nearby meat slicer, Lara shaved down a large, smoked pork belly into several pounds of bacon. They smoke these on-site with a couple different flavors, and on any given week, might cut up to 250-400 pounds. Once cut, she sealed them under a standing glass dome that immediately sucked the bacon into place inside the cellophane.

“It can also boil water,” Peyton said with a grin before filling up a bag to demonstrate.

There’s a rhythm to the carving, slicing and wrapping and the electric hum and whoosh of freezers opening and closing as products are shelved or rotated in their stock of inventory.

Their freezers are stuffed with tubs of steaks, burgers and sausages with customers’ names on them as well as separate freezers for their own large inventory of sliced meats, cheeses, beef, bacon, brats and other meat by-products.

At this point, the Koehlers run at least three separate operations depending on the time of year. In the fall, they stay busy through Christmas processing up to 20,000 pounds of wild game sausage for hunters. Then there’s the mobile service, where they’ll bring an animal back to the shop and custom process it to any specifications – excluding organ meat.

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Tips from Todd Q. Favorite steak cut?

Porterhouse or ribeye filet.

Q. Best way to brat?

Open fire (for wieners also).

Q. Key to grilling a good a steak?

Pay attention, don’t over cook or over season.

Q. Favorite brat flavor?

Horseradish bacon.

Q. Key to good sausage?

Don’t be afraid to experiment.

assortment of meat products, which they buy from a company in Montana, and sell to walk-in customers.

On the opposite side of the “employee only” entrance, there’s a door marked “office” where customers can walk in during business hours and buy anything off their extensive menu.

“Not too many people around here know about that,” Todd said, “but we sell right out of here.”

WILD IDEAS & EXPERIMENTATION Not surprisingly, the Koehlers eat a lot of meat and try out their products before putting any into their deep freezers or on their shelves.

Today, they’re sampling a new brat patty recipe of Todd’s, which Lara is overseeing on the large oval, cast iron-top grill outside the shop door, where currently half a dozen burgers and brats are snapping and sizzling.

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Todd’s pretty good at figuring out spices and can even try to recreate a lost family sausage or brat recipe based on a description of its flavor.

But he doesn’t bother writing anything down.

His favorite part of the job is coming up with new recipes that may or may not pan out.

Some of their more successful concoctions include the a.m. morning sausage perfect for breakfast burritos, complete with eggs, sausage, hash browns, bacon, cheese, peppers and onions, as well as the horseradish bacon brat, ghost mac and cheese, and pizza with tomato, mozzarella and pepperoni. Then there’s the cheesy wild rice, pineapple, olive cheese, and

their most popular, the jalapeno beer brat.

“Some of our wilder ideas have bombed,” Lara said. Like the raspberry chipotle and blue berry pecan brats, for example. “People just weren’t ready for those.”

Todd shrugged. “We get bored.”

Jerky is another one of Todd’s projects, and right now he’s working on his latest, Hillbilly Beef Jerky, but it’s not quite there yet, he said, shaking his head. He’s working on it.

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Keeping it fresh? The guys are always trying to think up new tricks to play. We like to have a good time. Allen likes to show people the "can gun," which literally shoots actual soda cans about 100 yards. Then there’s the ferret/weasel "trick box" that you have to experience for yourself.

How did you guys get your start?

We’ve been in business for 67 years, starting in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and with 45 years in Rozet.

My grandpa, LeRoy Townsend, started T&T Guns and Ammo, Inc. and my dad, Allen Townsend, later bought the business. Now my dad, brother, Kelly, and I operate it with our family friend Dan the Gunsmith.

What products and services do you offer? We have an outdoor public shooting range.

We carry rifles, shotguns, handguns — new and used. We also carry optics, reloading supplies, black powder, ammo, holsters, Liberty gun safes and more.

What’s a typical day at T&T look like?

We open the shop with a fresh pot of coffee and look forward to our first customer of the day. We spend the day putting out new freight, restocking shelves, helping or chatting with customers, repairing guns, sighting in guns on the range and having a great time doing what we love.

When’s your busy season? The fall is our busy season, but during the rest of the year, we’re here to help.

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Best part of working with family?

We work well together and we have a great time. We share all the responsibilities, joys and heartaches of running a familyowned business throughout all the ups and downs.

The worst part? It’s hard to do family vacations.

What’s your secret to success? Being honest, fair, and caring about our customers and friends, and of course, loving what we do!

Most popular guys guns?

Can't say just one! That's why we stock a large selection - good quality is important!

And for the ladies? They seem to favor the more “pretty guns,” typically handguns in different colors and engraved.

What’s your guys’ strong suit? We pride ourselves on being friendly, helpful and going the extra step to satisfy our customers. We often say, “We’re worth the drive.”

By: Stephanie L. Scarcliff with Tamera Townsend

RIDE’N HIGH

You can’t get any more Wyoming than this! Show off your Cowboy State pride with this handmade artisan Wyoming Bucking Horse License Plate Wall Art made from refurbished county plates that might have come off your granddad’s pickup for $95. SHOP: frontier-relics.myshopify.com

GONE POSTAL

Found Image Press Post Cards custom made in the U.S.A. Send your loved ones some memorable snail mail with Wyoming and Old West-themed post cards (Cowboys and Devils Tower pictured) for $1.50 each at Magpie Designs. SHOP: @shopmagpiedesigns

EDITOR’S PICKS

Cowboy up for this summer’s hottest “it” items — all available for under $100 (many for less) from local shops and artists in Gillette. BY STEPH SCARCLIFF

STAMPEDE

Anna Made It Hand Stamped 307 Necklace in antique brass with mixed metal, stone or bead pendant by local artist and art teacher Anna Burbank for $20 at Teacher’s Corner/Kids’ Mart (Chain approx. 30”, multiple designs avail.). SHOP: teacherscornerwy.com

ALL HAT, NO CATTLE

Show off your pride in the Cowboy State with CAPS BY CAMILLE’s specially Wyoming-made cap, with hand-beaded arrow on leather in gray heather and black.

SHOP: frontier-relics.myshopify.com

WINE DOWN

Easy front porch sip’n! K&K Designs Stemless Tumbler with straw and Wyoming Bucking Horse and Rider by Maars for $22 at Magpie Designs.

Made of 100% BPA-free 18/8 food grade stainless steel. Double wall vacuum insulated for hot and cold liquid. SHOP: @shopmagpiedesigns

WALLS THAT ROAM

Wyoming made Diverse Metals Metal Buffalo with 307 cutout and Inked patina finish by local artist Drake Jennings for $45 at Frontier Relics & Auto Museum (11 x 7.25 inches). SHOP: Handcrafted décor frontier-relics.myshopify.com JUNE / JULY 2019

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yan Trippett is working on his third resume. Along with the two notches he already has on his belt as a welder/

machinist, and conversely, a computer/IT guy, the 33-year-old Gillette transplant is now challenging himself to learn some new skills. He’s found Area 59 is the perfect place to learn.

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eaning over a laptop in the sprawling, open workshop, Ryan Trippett stared down at the wooden star in his hand. Around him machines buzzed and whirred as guys in plastic safety glasses monitored projects on the dozen or so surrounding machines. The lid was supposed to fit into the bottom, but he guesstimated the math, so now he’ll have to do some sanding.

Not a big deal, he shrugged. The byproducts are only a small part of why he’s here at Area 59.

The larger reason is teaching himself to use the CNC laser machines and plasma cutter, and to push himself to learn new tools and skills. It also provides him with a window into the past. As a kid in Washington, healing from cancer, his grandpa taught him how to make things out of nothing.

“He didn’t have any high-tech tools or anything,” Trippett said of those memories of

working with his grandfather. “It was just the two of us. Him showing me how to make things. That’s where a lot of this started.”

Now, he’s carrying on the tradition in a whole new era of tools and technologies and trying to pass on what he knows to his two young daughters, Leah and Zoey, who like to come in with him on weekends.

The star box will go to one of them. They’re happy as the primary recepients of his projects.

They’ve also received a couple 3-D toys and personalized decorative wooden signs for their bedroom doors.

Since joining the makerspace, just under a month ago, he’s been here on his weekends and days off from the mine. Short of going to tech school or receiving on-the-job training, learning to use all these expensive machines and tools

would have otherwise been out of reach.

“I’m a hands-on learner,” he said, “and this place is great for that.”

So far, during his short tenure, he’s learned how to use laser cutter engravers, 3-D printers, CNC turning and milling machines, and worked with a whole host of other tools he’d never be able to afford on his own. Yesterday, Trippett made a wooden cover for his journal and thinks he might look into making a few more and trying to sell them. At about $5 in materials a notebook, including the wood, he’s seen similar products on Amazon that sell for quadruple that price.

He’d heard about Area 59 from a couple friends a while ago, but it took him until May to finally get there and check it out for himself.

After getting a primer from Area 59 Director Guy Jackson, he’s able to run several of the machines.

And with the help of online tutorials like YouTube videos (using the dozen or so computers in the shop), he’s already pretty proficient on most of the CNC machines, which are easier to use than he’d previously thought.

His daughters have even shown an interest in learning some of the skills he’s recently acquired, with one signing up for two of the summer robotics classes.

Trippett is thinking that over the summer he’s going to try to fabricate and build a Razor scooter. Between the CNC steel-cutting machines and Mandrel tube and pipe bender machines, it shouldn’t be too hard to put one together for a fraction of the cost. Where else could he do that?

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WHAT WE'RE

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A splash of all the best books we’re reading right now. ~ Steph + Jen

GRIT ~ Angela Duckworth Why do some people succeed when others fail? In Grit, the CEO/ founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit advancing the science of character development in kids, weighs character traits like gumption and self-control to predict achievement. Fact and motivation-filled, this book unpacks the power of passion, hard work and perseverance in a way that’s fun to read.

Dear Committee Members ~ Julie Schumacher Laughing at people who take themselves too seriously is always fun, particularly academics. And, as a recovering academic who has written a lot of recommendation letters in my life, this book resonates on a personal level and is laugh-out-loud funny.

Read it. You will laugh.

Altitude Adjustment ~ Mary Beth Baptiste I’m a sucker for a “it’s never too late to follow your dreams” story, and this one tops my list. Mary Beth left her safe, fancy East coast life, dusted off her wildlife biology degree and headed for Grand Teton National Park, much to the horror of her husband and family. Not only did she do it, but upended her life (in a fabulous way) in the process. Plus, she’s a super cool human to boot.

Birds of a Feather ~ Lorin Lindner My reaction to this story was complicated. Like a Disney movie.

On one hand, I absolutely love and admire people who also love and save animals like birds, and at the same time, I felt rage for the reckless way some sucky people treat their pets. In the end, the connections between birds and people and the ways in which they help and save make this book an absolute heart-wrenching winner.

Alice & Gerald ~ Ron Franscell You’re going to need a weekend for this one, because once you start reading, it’s impossible to put down. I’ve long been a fan of Franscell

ever since reading The Darkest Night, and once again, he does not disappoint. Combining exhaustive research with literary storytelling, Franscell delves into the narcissistic psyche of a Wyoming couple, who are at once fascinating and horrific, as they get rid of obstacles standing in their way, seemingly without consequence.

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and the frustrating 40-year struggle to bring them to justice.

His debut book Angel Fire—a USA Today bestselling literary novel about two Wyoming brothers’ necessary relationship and the wounds of war—was listed by the San Francisco Chronicle among the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century West.

In addition to being a 2017 Edgar Award finalist for his Morgue: A Life in Death—co-authored with renowned medical examiner Dr. Vincent Di Maio—Franscell’s honors have included many national awards, including the prestigious national Freedom of Information Award by Associated Press Managing Editors, Photo courtesy the author. and a Best of the West Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). He is a returned to Wyoming for his stories. His Wyoming native, a graduate of Casper College newest is Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love and the University of Wyoming, and now lives Story (2019, Prometheus Books), a true story in San Antonio, Texas. about two of Wyoming’s most heinous killers on Franscell is the acclaimed author of 17 books and recognized as one of America’s most respected narrative nonfiction writers. Although he has covered war and natural disasters abroad as a journalist, he has regularly

We caught up with Ron Franscell to ask him about his new book, Alice & Gerald, and what it takes to be a journalist turned true crime writer.

As a journalist, why do you think you’re drawn to true crime and murder?

Dying and pure evil are the most consequential stories that any journalist can tell.

During my time overseas after 9/11, reporting on the first months of the War on Terror, a slow epiphany began to take shape: that in the imperceptible moment between life and death is where we find our most necessary stories. A mystifying thing—a sort of ghost in the machine—happened on my long flight home, and I came home intently focused on writing The Darkest Night, about a horrifying 1973 Wyoming crime that changed my hometown, Casper, overnight.

Why? I was learning that this immeasurable moment between life and death happens in both war and murder. I’m well past the days when I can cover wars. But I still want to tell consequential stories.

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common faith, and determination of many others.

That’s the kind of story I like. If I’m going to spend a year or two of my life immersed in all the gore and mayhem, I at least want to see some purpose, some blue sky. I get so close to these particular flames, I want it to be worth the risk.

Was it hard to get access to Gerald and his family, and how did you go about making that initial contact?

Gerald and Alice in 2004. Photo courtesy of Gerald Uden.

It’s a kind of dance that crime writers do with sources—bad guys, victims and their surviving families, cops, lawyers—most of whom never want to talk to a reporter about the gory details.

In this case, I wrote to Gerald and asked if he would do

an interview about what happened. At first, he resisted. But after a few letters between us, he grew more comfortable with me, and he agreed.

Alice wasn’t happy about it. She had refused to be interviewed and she wanted Gerald to refuse, too. But for maybe the first time in their relationship, he went forward on his own.

What followed was a lengthy correspondence between us for a year. Then I proposed a meeting in prison, and he agreed. I think we spent two days together in a little visitor room. He was like your slightly odd old uncle. He sang songs, recited pieces of poems he could remember, drew maps on my notebook, fondly recalled the people in his old life ... and then you could see the veil come down as he described how he murdered Virginia and his boys, or disposed of their bodies, or the cover-up that lasted for almost four decades.

Alice never spoke directly to me, and her children who play significant roles in the story didn’t either. But all of them talked many times to investigators over 30 years, and I had extraordinary access to all those transcripts and recordings. In the end, I’ve never had so much first-hand material from the killers’ point-of-view.

How did you find the story of Alice & Gerald Uden and what made you want to dive into their story?

The secret of my success as a writer is that I never pick a story I can screw up. Alice & Gerald struck me as such a story as I followed it in Wyoming media. To me, its power was universal stuff like perverse love, desperation, persistence, and devotion.

Certainly, the colorful cast of characters inspired me. A homicidal husband and wife, a series of dogged detectives who pursue this case over four decades, and a grieving grandmother who won’t let the memories or the search die. On one level it’s just an American crime story ... on another it’s a damn Shakespearean tragedy.

In Alice & Gerald, I also saw a chance to write about a time and a place I knew like the back of my hand. And I saw a story that reflected the pure evil of two people, but the goodness,

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Claire Martin’s hunt for her missing daughter and grandsons was a tabloid story.

Photo from the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.

Photo by Adam Ritterbush.

The book reads like a novel.

What’s the trick to pulling it all together into a literary narrative?

Narrative nonfiction is a journalistic technique that borrows tools from the novelist's toolbox— foreshadowing, dialogue, characterization, etc.—to tell absolutely true stories. It's a storytelling form that I embraced in my journalism and now my true crime writing. It's not just a string of facts. It's an honest-to-God story where we get to know characters who are in great conflict and must find a way to conquer whatever demons they’ve got.

Capote pioneered it with In Cold Blood. He made a few mistakes in the process, but he was inventing something, for God’s sake. We’ve had a

little more than 50 years to perfect the craft, and it has produced some great work, such as Norman Mailer’s Executioner’s Song and Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. Think of it this way: When you put your child to bed at night, she might look up and say, “Tell me a story.” Do you grab the paper and read the city council minutes? Or do you tell her about children much like her in frightening situations that they must overcome with their natural strengths? A child wants to know there’s always a possibility of happily ever after. A parent wants to know there’s a possibility of a life lesson.

I subscribe to a kind of “iceberg theory” of journalistic storytelling. You might only see 10 percent of what I’d like to tell you, but a book has its limitations. However, if I’ve done my

work, it feels like there’s so much more beneath the surface. It supports everything you see. You’ll know I didn’t just bungee-jump in and bounce out again. When I finish, I want to know more about a case than anyone else.

In this case, I did more than 150 interviews. I visited the places. And I had unprecedented access to four decades of investigative reports, transcripts, and recordings.

I'm an old-school journalist. I believe truly, madly, deeply in being there, so I stood in the places I describe: the exact spot where Virginia and her boys died, Claire's laundry, and among the bones that still clutter the edge of a deep, dark mine. I smelled it, listened to it, and looked for that narrative dust that settles on everything. It's that textual grit that makes it real. The rest is just years of practice and taking risks.

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What’s your biggest takeaway from covering the Alice & Gerald story?

It is Shakespeare in a trailer park.

At its heart, Alice & Gerald is about a narcissistic sociopath’s need to control everything around her at any cost—even by murder. Is that not Macbeth?

The leading ladies in both stories—Shakespeare’s fictional Lady Macbeth and my very real Alice— know no boundaries. They exercise their own personal ambitions with little regard for anything else, even the law.

And Gerald is so desperate for a lover, a wife, and a family, he’ll do anything, even murder, to keep them.

Because there are so many parallels, Shakespeare lurks in a dozen different hidey-holes throughout the book.

What makes Wyoming a compelling backdrop for a story?

For most of America, Wyoming is literally and figuratively a foreign country. Hell, it might as well be a big square crater on the surface of the moon.

It’s not only a metaphor for challenge and loneliness, it has also always felt to me like sanctuary and immunity from the rest of a messy world. Wyoming is so tangled up in its own myths that we couldn’t disentangle them if we wanted to—and we don’t.

That’s part of who we are.

My first book—written while I lived in Gillette—was a modest little literary novel called Angel Fire. I was more surprised than anyone when it was eventually listed by the San Francisco Chronicle as No. 74 on its list of the 100 greatest novels from the American West, but I am convinced my atmospheric treatment of Wyoming’s landscape— my own home and safe harbor which transformed magically into an allegorical sanctuary for my characters—made it stand out.

In Alice & Gerald, Wyoming plays a darker role, much like it did in my true crime book, The Darkest Night. It aids and abets the killers by giving them a place to hide both their bad behavior and their bodies. Who hasn’t driven across Wyoming in any direction and mused that it would be the perfect place to “lose” something? Well, it has happened more than we want to admit.

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In the early 2000s, you were dispatched by the Denver Post to write about the evolution of the American West. Did you unearth any notable stories that have been overlooked?

My assignment was to find the places where the West’s past, present, and future intersected. I was specifically hired to do provocative journalism but to use those narrative tools I’d learned in my first three books, all novels.

I drove the western half of Route 66, which has vanished in most places but still peeks through in a few spots like a curious ghost. I covered the Burning Man counterculture festival in the Nevada desert, where I saw naked Santa Claus strippers and traded my socks for shots of whiskey. When the media was telling us that 9/11 was the first terror attack on American soil, I went to Columbus, New Mexico, where Pancho Villa struck in a terror attack almost 80 years before. I wrote about a desperate club of middle-aged Montana women who had been secretly sold as babies by a female abortionist to families willing to pay for babies of their own. And a hundred other stories, where I really perfected my narrative chops.

I felt it was the best beat in American journalism, but when the corporate MBAs

started editing newspapers, the long-form stories were judged to be uneconomical. One year I’m nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and the next the beat is being killed as a space-waster.

Do you have a favorite Wyoming place or story?

There are so many terrific stories—some untold— and so many different places—some unexplored— that I hate to pick just one. With luck, I have more time for more stories and more homecomings.

What’s your history in Gillette?

When will you visit next?

For 12 years in mid-career, I was the editor and publisher of the Gillette News-Record, where we had an extraordinary run of great stories to tell. Some were criminal, some not, but we had some great reporters who went on to greater journalism elsewhere.

I’m hoping to return to Gillette sometime this year to meet readers and writers, and to talk about writing at a special library event, but we haven’t yet picked a date.

By: Jen C. Kocher

FRANSCELL'S WRITERS TIPS • Read a lot. And pay attention.

• Apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Repeat. Often.

• It’s all about the verbs.

• Write something every day. It’s called “practice.”

• If it doesn’t have anything to do with the plot, cut it.

• Say something original.

• This work requires a writer and a reader. If you don’t share it, it’s just a diary.

• Practice some more.

• Have something to say before you start. The writing will be easier.

• Don’t let your inner editor discourage you. Just tell the story.

• Practice again.

• It’s a heartbreak business. If it was easy, they’d just call it “typing.”

• And, finally, practice.

South Meets West

The Railyard’s Power Duo Heat Up Gillette Main Street

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t’s all about the heat and texture, Chef Jeremiah Zimmerman said. Railyard General Manager Trey McConnell agreed, cutting into the grilled bone-in blackened pork chop served over rice with fresh fruit chutney that Chef Jeremiah just delivered to him at the bar where he sat getting ready for that night’s dinner.

Trey bit into it with a satisfied nod. Yep, another good one.

A Colorado native, the 32-year-old chef spent a lot of years honing his culinary chops, receiving a degree from Sheridan College with an emphasis in French cuisine before sharpening his skills at Cajun restaurants in the Midwest and South before making his way back to the Rocky Mountain region. Most recently, he was at the Powder Horn in Sheridan until moving to Gillette.

He's been at the Railyard for the past year.

Since then, he’s taken Western classics like hearty steaks, burgers and pork chops and given them a Southern spin, like his New York Strip and BBQ scallops and fire-roasted salsa sauce over a sirloin.

“It gives it that extra kick and body people are looking for,” Jeremiah said.

They’re also looking for quality hand-cut steaks and burgers and other mainstays associated with the West.

“People like big steaks, big seafood, big portions,” Trey said. “It’s a Western philosophy, and we add a Southern twist with spices and savory sauces.”

Trey, too, brings a taste of the South to the Railyard. Having grown up in New Orleans, he’s

“People like big steaks, big seafood, big portions,” Trey said. “It’s a Western philosophy, and we add a Southern twist with spices and savory sauces.”

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rooted in Creole spice and flavor. Nothing too hot. It’s a misnomer, he noted, that Cajun food has to be “blow your head off ” hot.

“That’s not it at all,” Trey said. “It just has to be flavorful.”

The two are in sync as to what makes tasty dishes with piquancy and spend a lot of time texting each other pictures and ideas during their off-hours to keep the menu offerings fresh and ever-evolving. The rest is experimentation, they say, and a lot of trial and error in the kitchen to find unique blends to make their own.

Along with their joint love of food, both also like the laid-back nature of Gillette, which they’ve come to think of as their adopted home.

“The people here aren’t pretentious,” Trey said, unlike some of the other restaurants he’s worked in on the East Coast, where meals are

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stuffy and the patrons overly well-dressed. Putting on airs doesn’t play in Gillette. People are friendly and make a person feel at home, he added, much like his experience back home, where you might sit down for a drink by yourself at the bar only to find yourself at a stranger’s backyard BBQ. “It’s the same way here,” Trey said. “The community is really inviting, and people go out of their way to make you feel welcome.”

And though Wyoming couldn’t be further from Louisiana, as Trey pointed out, there’s a humility here that reminds him of home.

“It’s the South with no humidity or hurricanes,” he smiled, and the perfect place for culinary fusion.

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June / July

Community Calendar June 12 G.A.L.I. Graduation Lunch Join the Campbell County Chamber of Commerce for the commencement of the 2018/2019 G.A.L.I. class, featuring a guest speaker from the Wyoming Senate, Wednesday, June 12, at the Gillette College Pronghorn Center. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., with the program starting at noon. Register with the chamber at gillettechamber.com or (307) 682-3673.

June 20 June Chamber Mixer

The chamber will be hosting its June BusinessAfter-Hours event at ANB Bank in celebration of the bank’s 15th anniversary. Hot dogs and hamburgers will be served from 5-7 p.m.

Bring business cards to register to win door prizes and network with other like-minded business professionals. The event is free and open to the public.

June 21-22 Donkey Creek Festival

The annual music, art, and food festival is gearing up to take the stage at the Gillette College outdoor amphitheater June 21 and 22, Friday from 4-10 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Enjoy an artist’s reception, art and food vendors, Fun On The Go bounce

houses, face painting and glitter art for the kids, and some truly amazing music. Find this year’s lineup at donkeycreekfestival.com. This event is also free to attend and open to the public.

June 26-27 Energy

Exposition Energy Exposition is the largest oil and gas trade show in the Rocky Mountain region.

This year’s, held at the CAM-PLEX, explores a wide range of services, including exploration, production, and downstream industry support. For a list of speakers and full event schedule, visit energyexposition.com.

June 29 Coal Country Gravel Grinder

Coal Country Festival is an all-day event celebrating the love of cycling with fun activities for youth and adults, food vendors and more. The event takes place on Gillette Avenue, all day long. Live music and street

dance starts at 5 p.m. For more information or to register, visit www.energyaddicts.net.

July 4 4th of July Events & Firework Display

Campbell County Parks and Recreation hosts the annual communitywide 4th of July. This year's theme is "Heroes on The Homefront, A Tribute to Our First Responders!" The day kicks off with a volunteer pancake feed at Fire Department Station No. 1, followed by the Firecracker 4 Mile. Parade at 10 a.m. on Second Street. Family fun at Bicentennial Park starts at 11:30 a.m., including human foosball, mud volleyball and JR's Laser Tag. Fireworks display at CAM-PLEX Morningside Park at 10 p.m.

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July 11-14 Vintage Camper Trailer Rally

This summer, Paul Lacitinola, publisher of Vintage Camper Trailers Magazine, is stopping by Gillette to host a mini rally at CAM-PLEX. While here, he and his wife will be filming a documentary on the restoration of the Forgotten Golden Airstream for the "Ultimate Restorations" TV show. Join the fun at the public open house on Saturday, July 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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July 12 -14 Up-cycled and Vintage Market

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