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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
The Wyoming ranch bigger than NYC that's up for sale for $22 million
By A stunning Wyoming ranch larger than all of New York City and the state of Delaware can be yours for $22 million. The Midland Ranch, which has remained in the same family since 1909, spans 1.15 million acres - making it more than five times larger than all five boroughs of the Big Apple. But that figure includes a lot of land leased by the Bureau of Land Management and the state of Wyoming, with LandVest Christie's International Real Estate only offering a deed for 5,880 acres, Cowboy State Daily reports. Leases for the other land may also be conveyed with the property, which is listed for $22 million if bought whole. Prospective buyers, though, could also consider purchasing one of five units, which range in price from $1 million to $9.9 million. The first three units are located near the Boulder area of southwest Wyoming and include the main summer pastures, as well as fisheries, expansive water rights, a rock-climbing mecca on Prospect Mountain and a potential home site along the Little Sandy River, according to Mansion Global. The fourth unit is further to the east, between Pinedale and Rock Spring. It comprises the largest portion of the ranch, including the land leased from the Bureau of Land Management for grazing and trailing. The final section includes the winter pastures and is located south of Rock Spring, just north of the border of Colorado and Utah. 'There are about a million places for a homesite on a property of this scale,' Court Merrigan, the broker for the property, told Mansion Global. 'The only question is what you want. Do you want a view of the Wind River Mountains? Do you want a house near the Big Sandy River? Do you want it near the reservoir?' As it stands currently, the ranch offers two seasonal residences in the Prospect Mountains for the summers. There are also functional buildings that serve as bunkhouses for ranch hands, as well as barns, shops and corrals made of weathered wood. A historic sheep-shearing shed also sits on the expansive property, which is currently owned by Pete and Sue Aramel, third-generation sheep and cattle ranchers whose ancestors came from the Basque region of France. 'They brought sheep-raising with them from the old country and they have kept up with it,' Merrigan said of their transhumance method of herding - which involves moving livestock more than 100 miles between summer and winter pasteures. 'Taken as a whole, that makes this a very unique operation,' he noted. 'There's few places left in the West that truly practice it.' In addition to the unique ranching opportunities the land provides, its miles of private river frontage along the Big Sandy River and Little Sandy Creek offers 'world-class' fishing, while the vast land offers plenty of hunting opportunities with herds of more than 15,000 antelope as well as herds of elk and deer. 'Trophy game is out there, just because of the scale this property has,' Merrigan said. 'And because of the way they have managed things with that transhumance, which flows in tandem with the natural ecosystem and the natural migration patterns of the animals that are out there.' Much of the land also serves as a remnant from the Wild West, with water rights for the property dating back to when Wyoming was still considered an American territory - though Merrigan noted that it has improved since then. 'Over generations, [the] family has augmented its water supply, creating an entirely self-sufficient ranch,' which is important as the southern portion gets 'much more arid,' he said. 'They have managed and handled that and engineered it - over the past, more than a century, so that it is just a beautiful system of wells that are easily within reach of all the livestock,' the broker said. 'It's an amazing oasis down along the river.' Large portions of both the Oregon and Mormon trails ran through the property, with Merrigan explaining that the land served an important role in the Oregon trail. 'This was kind of the parting of the ways,' he said. 'This was where you had to decide if you were going to Oregon, to Utah or to California.' It was also once part of the Outlaw Trail that was traversed by bandits like Butch Cassidy in the late 1800s. 'They chose that spot because it was pretty remote for one, and two, there's a live stream there with potable water,' Merrigan said. 'You can just drink straight from it. So it was a good place for them after whatever they were doin, running down a stagecoach or whatever it may have been back then,' he said of the outlaws that once roamed the land. The ranch, itself, first got its start around 1860, when several cabins served as a remount station for the Pony Express, America's early mail system. It was then homesteaded in the 1890s and settled by French Basque immigrant John Aramel in 1909. 'It's uniqueness in the landscape of the West, based on its scale and what the animals have done over the last generation, this is just a property that is truly unique,' Merrigan told Cowboy State. 'I know everyone always says that, but this is truly one-of-a-kind.'
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Stunning Wyoming ranch bigger than NYC and entire state of Delaware up for sale for $22 million
A stunning Wyoming ranch larger than all of New York City and the state of Delaware can be yours for $22 million. The Midland Ranch, which has remained in the same family since 1909, spans 1.15 million acres - making it more than five times larger than all five boroughs of the Big Apple. But that figure includes a lot of land leased by the Bureau of Land Management and the state of Wyoming, with LandVest Christie's International Real Estate only offering a deed for 5,880 acres, Cowboy State Daily reports. Leases for the other land may also be conveyed with the property, which is listed for $22 million if bought whole. Prospective buyers, though, could also consider purchasing one of five units, which range in price from $1 million to $9.9 million. The first three units are located near the Boulder area of southwest Wyoming and include the main summer pastures, as well as fisheries, expansive water rights, a rock-climbing mecca on Prospect Mountain and a potential home site along the Little Sandy River, according to Mansion Global. The fourth unit is further to the east, between Pinedale and Rock Spring. It comprises the largest portion of the ranch, including the land leased from the Bureau of Land Management for grazing and trailing. The final section includes the winter pastures and is located south of Rock Spring, just north of the border of Colorado and Utah. 'There are about a million places for a homesite on a property of this scale,' Court Merrigan, the broker for the property, told Mansion Global. 'The only question is what you want. Do you want a view of the Wind River Mountains? Do you want a house near the Big Sandy River? Do you want it near the reservoir?' As it stands currently, the ranch offers two seasonal residences in the Prospect Mountains for the summers. There are also functional buildings that serve as bunkhouses for ranch hands, as well as barns, shops and corrals made of weathered wood. A historic sheep-shearing shed also sits on the expansive property, which is currently owned by Pete and Sue Aramel, third-generation sheep and cattle ranchers whose ancestors came from the Basque region of France. 'They brought sheep-raising with them from the old country and they have kept up with it,' Merrigan said of their transhumance method of herding - which involves moving livestock more than 100 miles between summer and winter pasteures. 'Taken as a whole, that makes this a very unique operation,' he noted. 'There's few places left in the West that truly practice it.' In addition to the unique ranching opportunities the land provides, its miles of private river frontage along the Big Sandy River and Little Sandy Creek offers 'world-class' fishing, while the vast land offers plenty of hunting opportunities with herds of more than 15,000 antelope as well as herds of elk and deer. 'Trophy game is out there, just because of the scale this property has,' Merrigan said. 'And because of the way they have managed things with that transhumance, which flows in tandem with the natural ecosystem and the natural migration patterns of the animals that are out there.' Much of the land also serves as a remnant from the Wild West, with water rights for the property dating back to when Wyoming was still considered an American territory - though Merrigan noted that it has improved since then. 'Over generations, [the] family has augmented its water supply, creating an entirely self-sufficient ranch,' which is important as the southern portion gets 'much more arid,' he said. 'They have managed and handled that and engineered it - over the past, more than a century, so that it is just a beautiful system of wells that are easily within reach of all the livestock,' the broker said. 'It's an amazing oasis down along the river.' Large portions of both the Oregon and Mormon trails ran through the property, with Merrigan explaining that the land served an important role in the Oregon trail. 'This was kind of the parting of the ways,' he said. 'This was where you had to decide if you were going to Oregon, to Utah or to California.' It was also once part of the Outlaw Trail that was traversed by bandits like Butch Cassidy in the late 1800s. 'They chose that spot because it was pretty remote for one, and two, there's a live stream there with potable water,' Merrigan said. 'You can just drink straight from it. 'So it was a good place for them after whatever they were doin, running down a stagecoach or whatever it may have been back then,' he said of the outlaws that once roamed the land. The ranch, itself, first got its start around 1860, when several cabins served as a remount station for the Pony Express, America's early mail system. It was then homesteaded in the 1890s and settled by French Basque immigrant John Aramel in 1909. 'It's uniqueness in the landscape of the West, based on its scale and what the animals have done over the last generation, this is just a property that is truly unique,' Merrigan told Cowboy State.
NZ Herald
17-07-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Kiwi who stole $23.5m in gold and silver from his 90-year-old dad is sent to jail in US
Michael Reps was sentenced on Monday at a courthouse in Lincoln County, Wyoming. Photo composite / Sam Hurley, Dean Purcell Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech. Kiwi who stole $23.5m in gold and silver from his 90-year-old dad is sent to jail in US Michael Reps was sentenced on Monday at a courthouse in Lincoln County, Wyoming. Photo composite / Sam Hurley, Dean Purcell A former New Zealand company director has been sent to prison in Wyoming after reportedly stealing millions of dollars of precious metals from his elderly father. Michael Reps earned infamy in New Zealand for financial register misuse, and a Financial Markets Authority (FMA) lawyer called him a 'gun for hire'. But now he faces at least four years in a Wyoming prison after pilfering millions in precious metals from his dad, according to Cowboy State Daily in the United States. 'It's difficult to pinpoint the total value of the theft because of fluctuating precious metal prices, though early investigative reports placed it at around US$14 million [NZ$23.5m],' the news outlet reported. 'Reps pleaded no contest to one count of felony theft in April and accepted a plea agreement limiting his potential prison term to four and a half years.'
UPI
08-07-2025
- Sport
- UPI
Watch: Bull wrangled five days after Colorado rodeo escape
July 8 (UPI) -- A bull that escaped while being unloaded at a Colorado rodeo was finally wrangled after five days on the loose. The bull was said to have escaped while being unloaded Wednesday at the Snowmass Rodeo and was repeatedly spotted in the ensuing days in the brush behind Snowmass Village's Horse Ranch neighborhood. CBS Colorado gave the bull's name as Sauce Boss, but Snowmass Village Police Officer Zach Wilcher told Cowboy State Daily he heard the animal's name was Twinkle Toes. Wilcher said he was unable to confirm the bovine's name. "It kind of just eluded us for a few days," Wilcher said Monday. "I understand that the owners of the bull were able to retrieve it yesterday." A local homeowner said the bull had been roped by cowboys a few days before its capture, but managed to give them the slip amid heavy rains. "Once it kind of moved up into this neighborhood, which is bordered by some open land with really tall, brush type foliage, it kind of disappeared into that area and really wasn't seen until the owners were able to locate it," Wilcher said. The bull is expected to make its belated debut at the Snowmass Rodeo this week.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Video: Motorcyclist Hits Deer At Highway Speed And Keeps Upright
Read the full story on The Auto Wire Shocking dashcam footage shows the moment a motorcyclist hits a deer on a highway and stays upright after impact. In an amazing display of riding skill, the guy doesn't dump his bike and go skidding along the blacktop. It's pretty amazing to can see in the footage, which was taken by the guy's friend who was riding behind him, the deer darts across the road from the other side, a car missing it, then smacks right into the guy's Harley-Davidson Street Glide. The incident in question happened in Hulett, Wyoming back on June 6. Fortunately, the deer was just a young doe, not a full-grown buck, otherwise Kyle Hamilton might not have stayed upright or even lived to tell the tale. A deer strike in a car can total your vehicle and in some cases seriously injure or even kill the driver or front passenger. But on a motorcycle, you're even more exposed to harm from the animal. Hamilton told Cowboy State Daily he's dealt with death wobbles on the highway before, caused by semis pushing the air as they pass his motorcycle, so that helped prepare him for the harrowing experience. It also probably helped he was on a big cruiser and not a sport bike. However, the Street Glide was badly damaged in the collision. You can see parts of the motorcycle go flying off after the deer ran into it. Apparently, Hamilton thinks it might be a total loss. The guy who recorded this incident on his motorcycle's dashcam didn't fare so well. The sliding deer carcass clipped his wheels, sending him sliding at highway speeds, totaling the bike. At least the friend wasn't hurt, thanks to dressing for the slide instead of just the ride. But this video is a great reminder as people are out and about during the summer that deer can dart across roads so quickly, you don't have time to stop and avoid them. Image via Cowboy State Daily/YouTube Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
