Mishurda Mountain Ranch sold

Mishurda Mountain Ranches was sold on March 1, 2022. The Mishurda ranch  situated between Klondike Peak and Guffy Peak  totaled 15,070 acres and had been owned by the family for 24 years. Birg and Deb Mishurda were pioneers in working with the Wyoming Stock Growers Agricultural Land Trust. In 2011 the ranch completed a conservation easement. The ranch had also won  a national BLM stewardship award  for restoring the Kirby Creek Watershed. Over the years many improvements were made on the reservoirs, dams, springs, and waterways. 

The Mishurda family had kept the ranch operating as a cow - calf operation and worked with the Wyoming Game and Fish to allow the public hunting access. The VH quarter circle brand which had originated in Elko, Nevada was still utilized by the Mishurda family nearly 140 years later. For many years the ranch hosted the famous Outlaw Trail Ride which crossed their property near Bridger Peak. The trail ride reinacted the route that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid traveled from Ten Sleep to Thermopolis. The Jim Bridger trail to Oregon also crossed the property.

Vincent Hayes and Dave Picard were the original founders of the ranch. In the 1880s Vincent Hayes homesteaded a prong of East Kirby Creek ( The Little VH ) and the ranch continued on for nearly 100 years in the cattle and horse (Hancock bred)  breeding business. The next generation was led by sons Vincent "Buster" Hayes who married Alice Rankin and Lawrence  "Lourie" Hayes who married Florence " Flossie" Daugherty. Both brothers belonged to the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association and American Quarterhorse Association.

In 1984 the Hayes finally sold the ranch to Don Hattan and Tamatha True who kept the ranch for 14 years. 

The Mishurda Mountain Ranch easement will help protect an important landscape in central Wyoming. The property provides great wildlife habitat, and the easement will allow the agricultural operation to be maintained and continued into the future. Birg Mishurda specifically wanted to thank all their friends, neighbors and business associates for helping to make the ranch a successful operation. "Our family enjoyed the opportunity to be part of the Thermopolis community and experience such a unique and beautiful part of Wyoming."

The new owners were not identified.