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(61,608 posts) Mon May 30, 2022, 07:14 AM May 2022

Riding along on the Green River Drift, the longest-running cattle drive left in America

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I caught the second half of this last night.

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Riding along on the Green River Drift, the longest-running cattle drive left in America

Bill Whitaker saddles up for one of the last enduring symbols of the Old West, a Wyoming cattle drive that travels the same route pioneered 125 years ago.

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From last fall:

60 MINUTES OVERTIME

Breathtaking sights and sounds from Wyoming's Green River Drift

BY KEITH ZUBROW

OCTOBER 17, 2021 / 7:56 PM / CBS NEWS

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The Green River Drift on 60 Minutes. Photo by CBS 60 Minutes.
The Green River Drift on 60 Minutes
Bill Whitaker saddles up for one of the last enduring symbols of the Old West, a Wyoming cattle drive that travels the same route pioneered 125 years ago.

60 Minutes on CBS. Photo by 60 Minutes.
60 Minutes on CBS
Aired October 17, 2021

Green River Drift on 60 Minutes Oct. 17
by Pinedale Online!

Original post October 15, 2021 | Updated October 17, 2021

The CBS 60 Minutes story on the Green River Drift will air on Sunday, October 17th. Film crews were in the Upper Green River Valley filming and doing interviews during the summer.

The Green River Drift is a 58-mile long cattle trail that has been continuously used since the 1890s by the Green River Valley Cattle Association by ranchers to get cattle from spring pasture in the desert to summer pasture in the forest. The Green River Drift Cattle Trail predates the area federal government management agencies. It crosses private land, Bureau of Land Management Land, U.S. Forest Service, and State of Wyoming lands. The Drift was listed on the National Register in 2013. Because it is still being used today much as it has been for more than 100 years, it was listed as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP), the first ranching-related TCP in the nation.

Update: Click on this link to view the episode, which aired Sunday, October 17, 2021 on CBS: The Green River Drift Bill Whitaker saddles up for one of the last enduring symbols of the Old West, a Wyoming cattle drive that travels the same route pioneered 125 years ago. Riding along on the Green River Drift, the longest-running cattle drive left in America. Produced by Rome Hartman.

Related Links
• www.greenriverdrift.org - Historical information
• 60 Minutes - Green River Drift Episode - CBS - Aired Sunday, October 17, 2021
• Homesteading and Ranching in the Upper Green River Valley - New book by Ann Chambers Noble and Jonita Sommers, $55.00. Order from the Museum of the Mountain Man/Sublette County Historical Society

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Brittany Haseltine, range rider

Brittany Haseltine, range rider

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Shad Swain, little cowboy and future rancher

Shad Swain, little cowboy and future rancher.

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Riding along on the Green River Drift, the longest-running cattle drive left in America (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves May 2022 OP

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Oh how fun! MuseRider May 2022 #2

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2. Oh how fun!

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Mon May 30, 2022, 08:36 AM

May 2022

I would have loved to do that. Did a little bunch of cattle work a long time ago and I loved every minute of being horseback on my trusty steed looking at cow butts, slapping my leg making funny sounds to get them back in the right place. I always said I found God looking at cow butts. There is such a sense of being part of the whole earth doing that kind of thing.

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