The Green River Drift on 60 Minutes
Bill Whitaker saddles up
for one of the last
enduring symbols of the Old
West, a Wyoming cattle
drive that travels the same
route pioneered 125 years
ago.
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Green River Drift on 60 Minutes Oct. 17
by Pinedale Online!
Original post October 15, 2021 | Updated October 17, 2021
The CBS 60 Minutes story on the Green River Drift will air on Sunday, October 17th. Film crews were in the Upper Green River Valley filming and doing interviews during the summer.
The Green River Drift is a 58-mile long cattle trail that has been continuously used since the 1890s by the Green River Valley Cattle Association by ranchers to get cattle from spring pasture in the desert to summer pasture in the forest. The Green River Drift Cattle Trail predates the area federal government management agencies. It crosses private land, Bureau of Land Management Land, U.S. Forest Service, and State of Wyoming lands. The Drift was listed on the National Register in 2013. Because it is still being used today much as it has been for more than 100 years, it was listed as a Traditional Cultural Property (TCP), the first ranching-related TCP in the nation.
Update: Click on this link to view the episode, which aired Sunday, October 17, 2021 on CBS: The Green River Drift Bill Whitaker saddles up for one of the last enduring symbols of the Old West, a Wyoming cattle drive that travels the same route pioneered 125 years ago. Riding along on the Green River Drift, the longest-running cattle drive left in America. Produced by Rome Hartman.
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