In Sheridan, Wyoming, cowboys still walk Main Street

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SHERIDAN, Wyoming — The West isn’t dead here.

That might sound like a cliche, but it’s true.

The cowboys you see walking down Main Street, shopping at Walmart or heading into the old-school Mint Bar are the real thing. They aren’t tourists playing dress-up. They are ranchers and ranch hands whose lives still revolve around cattle, horses and the rugged land where Wyoming’s high plains meet the peaks of the Bighorn Mountains.

Sheridan , the gateway to the Bighorns and seat of the eponymous county, is almost as close to Helena, the capital of Montana, as it is to Cheyenne, its own state capital. Most visitors who pass through are either traversing the interstate highway or driving between Devils Tower and Mount Rushmore to the east and the entrance to Yellowstone in Cody to t