Political Quotes

“I will soon be attending the 101st Wyoming State Fair. During the Ag Hall of Fame Picnic, Senator Enzi and I will have the honor of recognizing Jw and Thea Nuckolls as they are inducted into the Wyoming Agriculture Hall of Fame for 2013. I cannot think of two people more deserving of this recognition. The Nuckolls family came to Wyoming from Virginia in the early 1900s. Jw's parents sold 100 horses in order to purchase the original ranch in 1917. In 1943, the family entered the sheep business by purchasing 500 head of sheep to stock the ranch. Jw was only 12 years old when he began trailing ewes from Moorcroft, where the sheep were bought, to the family ranch 26 miles away. Jw returned to the ranch after graduating from the University of Wyoming. He was in the market for more sheep, when he met his future wife, Thea. He purchased part of her family's Corriedale flock. The future couple subsequently ran into each other again at the Wyoming State Fair in 1958 and were married the following year. How fitting it is for them to be honored together in the same place where their lives with one another began 55 years ago. Over the past five decades, Jw and Thea have built a strong, diversified ranching operation. Thea brought registered Angus cows into the family and together she and Jw have built herds of high quality cattle and sheep. Their contributions to agriculture go far beyond their own operation, however.…”