In the eyes of the world, Dick Cheney is known as the most powerful vice president in America’s history — a hawkish and reticent 9/11-era figure who helped expand executive power.

But to those close to him, Cheney was a Wyoming boy to his core; a man deeply devoted to his wife, Lynne, and his daughters; a keen history scholar; an avid fly-fisherman and a proud grandfather.

He was a man whose work took him to the White House and to world capitals to convene with global dignitaries. But he also attended his grandson’s high school football games, packed and moved his granddaughter to college, and drove another around the West as her personal rodeo chauffeur.

“I’m pretty sure he’s the only person who ever had the title vice-president-turned-rodeo-grandpa,” granddaughter Grace Perry told a c

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