Gary Lozier

Gary Steele Lozier was born in Jackson Hole but he lived in Sublette County his entire life. His mother, Ellen Steele Lozier is third generation of an original pioneer Wyoming rancher who settled in the Silver Creek/Boulder area in 1886. Gary’s father, Jack Lozier’s family, came to the Upper Green River Valley of Wyoming in the 1890s as well. Gary’s first sitting in a saddle happened before he could walk, as he spent a good amount of his early days at his Grandpa and Grandma Steele’s ranch at New Fork outside Pinedale. At around age 8 years old, his family moved to the Rahm Place north of Cora, and Gary began living his dream of horses, cowboys, and ranching. During the long, cold months of below 0 degrees Wyoming winters, Gary and two of his younger sisters rode horses five days a week to and from the Bar Cross Ranch School, a one-room, country, log-built cabin that had a wood-burning stove for heat. In the mid-1960s, he joined the Wyoming Rodeo Association where he rode saddle broncs and bulls. He also team roped. In 1969, while working for the Murdock Ranches in Pinedale, he married Sharlene Potter. It was there that he first moved cattle to the forest on the Green River Drift. In 1971, he went to work for Gordon Mickelson on the 67 Ranch in Big Piney. The Mickelson Ranch would be home for the Lozier family for 20 years. In 1996, Gary went to work for the New Fork Ranch on the Green River, then owned by Don Kendall. It was there that he got to ride on the Green River Drift again.