Here in Wyoming, history and prehistory are still close enough to touch. Cheyenne River Ranch holds petrified wood that lived and died with the dinosaurs, and fossils continue to be found in the area. The Pellatzs can take you to visit nearby tepee rings from the days when buffalo roamed freely and the Plains Indians fought fiercely to keep their land. If you're very lucky, you might find an arrowhead left over from those days. Later, longhorn cattle owned by wealthy cattle barons grazed the fenceless range.

Don's pioneer father homesteaded on the Dry Fork of the Cheyenne River in 1917, and Don was raised in this part of the country. Betty, his bride and partner for over 40 years, came originally from Illinois. Together they've raised five children and devoted their lives to each other and the ranching tradition of the West.

"We've come to love the vastness of the prairie where the air is clean and pure, and the wonderful smell of sage after a rain! This is God's country."

Don and Betty's son Chuck and his wife Danette have joined them in working to carry the Cheyenne River Ranch tradition into the twenty-first century.