CALENDAR

Events

June 2-3

June 4-7

Overland Stage Stampede Rodeo, Green River. For tickets, visit overlandstage.smashpass.com or for more information, call 307-872-0514.

Wyoming Department of Environmental/Abandoned Mine Land Division Seeding Specialist Certification and Training, Boise, Idaho. For more information to register, visit asra.us/2023-conference/

June 4-7 U.S. Cattlemen’s Association 2023 Cattle Producers in the Capitol, Washington, D.C. For more information, visit uscattlemen.org

June 5 Campbell County AI Days, Gillette. For more information, contact Kim Fry via e-mail at kim.fry@campbellcountywy.gov or call 307-682-7281.

June 6 Natrona County Predator Management District Budget and Board Meeting, 6 p.m., Wyoming Wool Growers Office, Casper. For more information, e-mail ncpmd1@charter.net.

June 6 Fremont County AI Days, Riverton. For more information, contact Chance Marshall via e-mail at cmarsha1@uwyo.edu or call 307-332-1018.

June 6-7 2023 Nebraska Ranch Practicum, Whitman, Neb. For more information or to register, visit nebraskaranchpracticum.unl.edu, e-mail Troy Walz at troy.walz@ unl.edu or call 308-872-6831.

June 6-8 406 Grazing Academy, Forge Hotel, Anaconda, Mont. and Deer Lodge Valley, Mont. For information and to register, visit montana.edu/news/22847/registration-open-for-406-grazing-academy-hosted-by-montana-state-universityand-partners

June 7 U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program Webinar, 12-1:30 p.m., online. For more information, visit nrcs. usda.gov

June 7-9 Wyoming Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show, Holiday Inn, Riverton. For more information, visit wysga.org

June 10-11 76th Annual Hulett Rodeo, Hulett. For more information, visit hulettrodeowyo. com

June 10-11 Wind River Flywheelers 27th Annual Antique Engine and Tractor Show East Park, Shoshoni. For more information e-mail Carlta Witthar at cmaule@ wyoming.com or call 307-856-1164.

June 11-17 College National Finals Rodeo, Ford Wyoming Center, Casper. For more information, visit cnfr.com

June 12-14 University of Wyoming Livestock Judging Camp, Laramie. For more information, contact Landon Eldridge at landon.eldridge@uwyo.edu or 979-2241340. To register, visit uw.uwyo.edu/livestock_camp_2023

June 12-15 Wyoming Federal Funding Summit, Sheridan. For more information and to register, visit lummis.senate.gov/federal-funding-summit-rsvp

June 12-16 University of Wyoming Extension 2023 Ranch Camp, Padlock Ranch, Ranchester. For more information or to apply, contact Hudson Hill at hrhill@ uwyo.edu or Chance Marshall at cmarsha1@uwyo.edu.

June 14 National Women’s Business Council Virtual Public Meeting, 10:30 a.m.12 p.m., online. For more information or to register, visit nwbc.gov

June 15 Sandhills Cattle Association Convention and Banquet, Valentine, Neb. For more information, visit sandhillscattle.com or call 402-376-2310.

June 16-17 University of Wyoming Growing Grapes in Wyoming Symposium, Sheridan Research and Extension Center, Sheridan. For more information and to register, visit bit.ly/WYGrapeWorkshops

June 17 12th Annual Chris LeDoux Days, 10:30 a.m., Kaycee. For more information, visit chrisledoux.com

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Events

June 17-18 World Famous 62nd Annual Woodchopper’s Jamboree and Rodeo, Encampment. For more information, visit woodchoppersjamboree.org

June 19-21 Casper College Livestock Judging Camp, Grace Werner Agricultural Pavilion, Casper. For more information, contact Colby Hales at colby.hales@ caspercollege.edu or 307-268-2040. To register, visit caspercollegee.edu/ events/ag-judging-camp

June 19-24 Boys 2023 Inspire a Kid Camp, Little Jennie Ranch, Bondurant. For more information, e-mail chris@thewyldlifefund.org or call 307-316-3863.

June 26-July 1 Girls 2023 Inspire a Kid Camp, Little Jennie Ranch, Bondurant. For more information, e-mail chris@thewyldlifefund.org or call 307-316-3863.

June 27-28 Nebraska Soil Health School, West Central Research, Extension and Education Center, North Platte, Neb. For more information, e-mail nheldt@unl.edu or call 308-632-1233.

June 30-July 2 Wyoming Wool Growers Annual Membership Meeting and Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival, Kemmerer. For more information, visit wyowool.com

July 1 First Annual Sheepherders Come Bye, 6 p.m., South Lincoln Training and Event Center, Kemmerer.

July 1-8 2023 National Junior Angus Show, Grand Island, Neb. For more information, visit njas.info

July 1-10 Laramie Jubilee Days, Laramie. For more information, visit laramiejubileedays.org

July 3-6 2023 Beef Improvement Federation Symposium, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. For more information or to register, visit beefimprovement.org/symposium

Sales

June 7-8

June 22-23

Superior Livestock Auction Corn Belt Classic, The Marriott South Sioux Riverfront, South Sioux City, Neb., 800-422-2117, superiorlivestock.com

Northern Livestock Video Auction Early Summer Special, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com

July 6 Cattle Country Video High Plains Showcase Sale, Goshen County Rendezvous Center, Torrington, 888-322-8853, cattlecountryvideo.com

July 10-12 Western Video Market, Silver Legacy, Reno, Nev., 530-347-3793, wvmcattle.com

July 10-14 Superior Livestock Auction Week in the Rockies, Steamboat Springs, Colo., 800-422-2117, superiorlivestock.com

July 24-26

Northern Livestock Video Auction Summertime Classic, 866-616-5035, northernlivestockvideo.com

July 31-Aug. 4 Superior Livestock Auction Video Royale, Winnemucca, Nev., 800-4222117, superiorlivestock.com

Aug. 8-9 Cattle Country Video Oregon Trail Classic Sale, Gering Civic Center, Gering, Neb., 888-322-8853, cattlecountryvideo.com

POSTCARD from the Past

Compiled by Dick Perue rrichardperue@gmail.com

Mosquitoes as Big as Bats

There are many stories of mosquitoes in Wyoming, but one of my favorites is a tall tale published in the 1890s entitled “The Rocky Mountain Vampire.”

It reads: tell of a slaughter from year to year of young deer and elk, as mysterious as it was deadly. and had battened and fattened upon the blood of his tender and innocent victims until his kind attained the enormous size indicated by the lately discovered skull –the horns something new in ‘batology,’ being probably an ‘off-shoot’ – legitimate enough, of continuous digestive assimilation of the blood of horned animals.

July

There has been picked up in the Saratoga Valley, and is now preserved in the Museum of Natural Saratoga Curiosities, a skull, which in its zoological structure and classification points to the local existence – at no comparatively remote period – of a species of gigantic, bloodsucking bats.

The skull is about five inches in length by three inches in breath, has eye sockets of little more than rudimentary character –the nasal cavities, on the other hand, being of abnormal development, thus giving great blood-scenting strength, has a muzzle, or month, indicating enormous suction power with deep teeth sockets – and, singularly enough, is furnished forth with a pair of mature horns, three inches long.

In the golden aboriginal days of long ago, when the Ute Indians possessed the Saratoga Valley as their happiest and most cherished hunting grounds, their traditions

All over the country, elk calf and the deer fawn were found dead or dying, the sufficiently apparent cause of death being the draining – from some cause which baffled conjecture – of the blood from their bodies.

With the discovery of the singular skull above noted, comes also, undoubtedly, the solution of the traditional and mysterious slaying of the young elk and deer of the Saratoga section.

This Rocky Mountain Vampire was in the field

With the disappearance from the Saratoga country of the big herds of elk and deer, a disappearance inevitable to the advance of settlement and civilization, the Rocky Mountain Vampire, bereft of his natural and noisome sustenance, unable longer to feed alike his blood-sucking propensities and necessities, languished, famished and became extinct.

What Caldwell didn’t know at the time, was what he thought was a “bat” would be reincarnated and come back as the present day “mosquito.”