Around where he lived early on in Big Piney in the Western part, there were nothing but cottonwoods and little willow like bushes along the streams. But if you went up towards the tree line in the mountains there were pine trees. People seemed to burn the pine? A cottonwood will burn if you can put enough pine around it to keep it hot.
He lived on the East side of Cheyenne the last couple years he was there. No air conditioning. Don't need it with the low humidity and wind.
I saw the speed goats (antelope), nice sized mule deer, and mountain sheep. They all seemed rather healthy and not particularly afraid of a car. Thousands of huge elk below Yellowstone. Don't forget the dumb moose. I liked Jackson Hole but my house and property would be worth 15 times what it is here.
Couldn't get over that horses and cows preferred to be outside in the winter and to eat off the ground.