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...source insisted that no search for a replacement has begun within the White House and talk of possible candidates is speculation. However, Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo) said Monday he has received "feelers" from the White House about succeeding Casey...
...Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) complained, "The high standards of the Senate have been sullied and trashed in a wretched ... exercise in justice-bashing which is not very becoming...
When he was marshal of the tiny (pop. 650) ranching town of Cokeville, Wyo., David Young often dressed up like an old-time sheriff and brandished his pistol at the slightest provocation. Fired eight years ago for overzealousness, he moved away, some said back to Iowa, where he had grown up an orphan obsessed with guns. Last week Young, 42, returned with a horrible vengeance...
...bust is especially hard on the brash boomtowns that flourished in the early 1980s, when energy prices were peaking. Six years ago, Evanston, Wyo., a dusty town (pop. 1,250) on the Utah border, was dubbed "Oil City, U.S.A." because of its strategic location atop the Overthrust Belt, then a choice location for petroleum exploration. Oil-rig workers earned upwards of $1,000 a week. Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives." Today the area's wells have...
...prominent name has joined the ever growing list of beleaguered American farmers and ranchers: Governor Ed Herschler of Wyoming filed for bankruptcy this month, becoming the first sitting Governor in his state to do so. His trouble stems from the 18,500-acre Yellowstone Ranch near Lander, Wyo., which Herschler and three partners bought in 1977 for an estimated $4.5 million to $5 million. After the partners were unable to collect a $1.5 million payment for 3,000 head of cattle they sold in 1981, they were forced to borrow at high interest rates to make debt payments. Meanwhile, beef...