Breathtaking sights and sounds from Wyoming’s Green River Drift

It’s 4 a.m. and 60 Minutes correspondent Invoice Whitaker is making ready for a horseback trip on Wyoming’s Inexperienced River Drift, the longest working cattle drive in america. 

Whitaker is saddled as much as be part of Brittany Heseltine a 29-year-old vary rider. Her job is to information and watch over roughly 600 cattle in mountain pastures throughout their summer season grazing. Final summer season was her third on the drift.

The job lasts about 5 months and might be grueling. Whereas on the distant vary, Heseltine lives in a small, remoted trailer with out working water and cell service. 

“It is simply completely superb to be out right here alone in nature with all of the wildlife,” Hazeltine informed Whitaker. “And I get to work my canines and drive my horses day by day. And, after all, the cattle. It is one thing that actually soothes my soul and it actually speaks to me, I suppose. It is actually tough to elucidate, however I adore it.”

Whitaker and 60 Minutes joined Heseltine for a one-and-a-half-mile trek that lasted shut to 3 hours earlier than the herd stopped for a bovine siesta.

Watch Invoice Whitaker’s full 60 Minutes report under. 

The video above was initially printed on October 17, 2021 and was produced by Sarah Shafer Prediger and Keith Zubrow. It was edited by Sarah Shafer Prediger.