Kevin W. Campbell

Kevin is a third-generation cowboy/rancher of the Campbell Cattle Company in Bondurant. His grandfather, Lennie Campbell, came to the Hoback Basin (then called the Fall River Basin) and homesteaded in 1910. He was granted ownership in 1913 and bought the Bondurant place in 1943. Kevin’s parents bought the home ranch in 1953 from Lennie. It is one of two original remaining ranches in the Hoback Basin. Kevin worked hard from a young age on, learning all aspects of cowboying and ranch life, while attending a one room schoolhouse in Bondurant. At a young age, he started breaking horses for area ranchers. Kevin is highly respected as a cowboy who could get the job done on about any kind of horse, either trainable or unruly. He trains his horses on the job, using them for calving, trailing cattle, roping, and sorting the herd for the ranch. He can read horses and communicate with them easily. He had the highest selling ranch gelding in the Wyoming Gelding Sale for eight years. Kevin does a wonderful job of working draft horses. The Campbells always fed and hayed using work horses and they still feed with a team in the winter and use horses to mow hay. When Campbells did all the haying with horses, Kevin drove the team on the buck sweep. Kevin regularly works two and four-horse teams in the winter feeding their cattle. He does a great job with the team when working in three to five feet of snow building a trail and feed ground for the cows. Kevin is a horseman, a teamster, a cowboy and most prominently a stockman.