The Camino Family has been operating The KID Ranch in Johnson County for four generations. They raise premium natural Rambouillet lambs in the mountains and wide open spaces of northern Wyoming. They are committed to sound animal husbandry and sustainable agricultural practices. The sheep are handled with care and raised the way we believe nature intended: on lush pastures, with plenty of clear, clean water. Their dedication to the land and the lambs they produce guarantees that their fiber is among the purest in the world.

The Pheasant ranch or “9 mile ranch” is located in Southern Johnson County near Kaycee, Wyoming. Bruce Pheasant is the owner of this 3rd generation ranch. His grandfather started with Rambouillet sheep in the early 1900’s and now Bruce raises Cormo and dabbles with the California Red breed.
His Cormo wool is sought after by many for its softness and length.

“This lifestyle, you can’t beat it,” Pheasant says staring out over his ranch toward the Bighorn Mountains. “It gets in your blood.”

The Little Ranch Co. Over 100 years ago in 1914, Philip Sheridan Little Sr. built a homestead 20 miles east of Buffalo, Wyoming along the banks of Clear Creek. Later in 1960, his son Phil and wife Glory Little began raising Rambouillet and Suffolk sheep breeds. Today, Phil and Glory Little work diligently with their grandson’s Kellen and Sheridan to raise their quality fiber. The Little Family’s 21 micron, white Rambouillet, is a soft, yet durable yarn.

The Geis Cattle & Sheep Ranch is one of Campbell County’s longtime family ranches, owned by brothers Gerry and Kevin Geis and their respective wives, Gwen and Bobbi. Located 15 miles south of Gillette in northeast Wyoming, the ranch is about 30,000 leased and owned acres on rolling hills. The ranch runs approximately 350 cow/calf pairs of predominantly Angus and 2,000 head of sheep.Gwen and her husband Gerry are proud of being fourth-generation ranchers in Campbell County. The ranch, itself, has been in her husband’s family since the early 1920s. "Our land means something to us.”

Pete and Sue Arambel along with their son Lou and daughter-in-law Shelby graze sheep in southwest Wyoming. The 4th generation Basque family has preserved the tradition of transhumance which is the practice of seasonally moving livestock from winter pastures in the warmer low elevations and summering the sheep in the cooler mountains.  The Arambel’s trail their sheep over 100 miles between the summer and winter grazing with the help of amazing shepherds and sheep dogs.

Bauer Land and Livestock is a family operation, Barry has been part of the sheep industry since he was a child helping with his father’s sheep in Montana.  He worked for many years for other ranchers and now has his own sheep operation in Ucross, Wyoming.  It is family operation, and his three adult children have all spent many hours working with the sheep and their son, TJ continues to work for the ranch.  Barry has his sheep on the mountain pastures in the summer and he has good Peruvian herders, who he says are crucial to the
success of the ranch.