Wyoming rush hour

For years, the giant billboard showing cars working their way down a street through a Wyoming cattle drive was stationed on the busiest highway in New York City. It was figured that this image was seen by millions of frustrated and stranded city-dwellers stuck in stalled traffic.

Caption on the billboard read: “Rush Hour in Wyoming.”

I was on the travel commission back in the 1990s when our brilliant director Gene Bryan came up with that idea.

That image, which was snapped by the late Lander photographer Mike McClure of the annual cattle drive down our local Main Street, came to mind during th...