Only about a 1/4 of the county population has kids. It's an old timers sorta ranching place with nobody per square mile of range. It's very cool.

We used to call it (tongue in cheek) Red Cloud Country.

Now it is the Energy Armpit of the Nation.

Lusk is pretty much due west of Chadron, as the crow flies. We used to go south through Custer and Edgemont to go on our organizing visits to area ranchers. Back then, the coal and gas industry was just getting going. We'd run up and down 85 from Lusk to Newcastle to Four Corners and the Powder River Basin country where we had quite a few allies among the cowboys and Indians.

We've been fighting Cheney & Co. for a LONG time.