Living in Wyoming | How People Live in the Last Truly Wild Place Left in America | 4K

Wyoming is the least populated state in America. And it might be the most extraordinary.

576,000 people. 97,000 square miles. More wild land than people. More bison than traffic lights. More sky than most Americans will ever see in a lifetime of living in cities that have forgotten what the horizon looks like. Wyoming is not a state that is waiting to be developed, waiting to be discovered, waiting to grow into something more. Wyoming is already exactly what it is — one of the last places in the continental United States where the land is still bigger than the human ambition to tame it.

And the people who live here know it. And they have chosen it. Every single one of them.

In this 4K documentary, we explore what daily life is really like Living in Wyoming: the cowboy ranching culture of the Powder River Basin where families have been running cattle across the same high plains for five and six generations and where the rodeo is not a tourist attraction but a way of measuring who you are and what you are made of, the geothermal wonderland of Yellowstone National Park — the largest supervolcano on Earth, sitting beneath 3,500 square miles of geysers and hot springs and bison herds and wolf packs that have returned to reclaim a landscape that almost lost them forever, the cathedral peaks and glacial lakes of Grand Teton National Park rising so abruptly from the valley floor of Jackson Hole that the first European explorers who saw them could not find words in their language adequate to describe what they were looking at, the Wind River Reservation — home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho peoples, two nations sharing one reservation on land they have called home since long before Wyoming was a word, the small towns of Cody and Sheridan and Lander and Pinedale where the bar on Main Street has been open since 1886 and everybody in it knows your name and your father's name and probably your grandfather's too, the high altitude ranch life of the Wyoming Range where winter comes in October and stays until May and the people who survive it would not trade it for anything the lower 48 has to offer, and the extraordinary, stubborn, magnificently independent people who have looked at everything America has built and said — quietly, without drama, without apology — no thank you. We will stay here. In the last truly wild place left.