All Politics Is Local in Wyoming, No Matter Which Way the Wind Blows

Wyoming Republican congressional candidate Harriet Hageman shakes hands will Jaymz Ackerman, 5, while his father, Lance Ackerman, and sister, Rilynn Wester, look on at a meet-and-greet in Rock Springs, Wyo., on Aug. 11. John Haughey/The Epoch Times

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.—The late-afternoon thunderstorm barreled down the chalky face of White Mountain and rolled east into the Red Desert, where it would dissipate and disappear in the expanse of the Great Divide Basin’s sagebrush steppe.

In the blow’s wake returned the sun and the wind—the flag-snapping, bush-bending winds of Wyoming that scrape the land clear of snow in winter and can blow litter along I-80 from Utah 400 miles across the state to Nebraska.