The Lifeblood of a Heartland

The Wyoming dude ranch’s brand is emblazoned with authentic western adventure on horseback and heartfelt hospitality that feels like a warm embrace.

Wranglers push horses during early morning roundup. Maria Coulson

We escaped on horseback from the rest of the world at the CM Ranch, where prairie dog towns were the closest we came to congested civilization. The Shoshone tribe and frontiersman Kit Carson did the same when they rode across this little-changed land in an infant America.

Butch Cassidy and his bunch later maintained two hideouts near Dubois, Wyoming, which is six miles from the CM. Cassidy wrote in a letter about his short-lived, peaceful stay in and around the town in the early 1890s, “I am raising horses, which I think suits this country just fine.”