Cowboy Larry Bentley had his work cut out for him.

He had just driven 30 horses plus six of his own into Thermopolis. These quarter horses, with a few Arab crosses, were fresh off the range and saw green grass. They scattered, and Bentley said women with brooms were soon in their yards, shooing the horses away.

“They were fresh and they weren’t used to traveling,” Bentley said. “This was all strange to them.”

Bentley had trailed the herd about 20 miles from Highland Ranch, a ranch along Cottonwood Creek, west of Hamilton Dome. Bentley and the herd had just come down the road west of Thermopolis when the horses decided to go their own way.

“We came off that hill, and they could look down and see all the green grass growing in the yards, I guess,” Bentley said. “We came off the hill pret

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