IT WAS A busy morning on the ranch. Dan Zwonitzer freed a newborn yak from where it had got tangled in his fence. The white-and-black baby, which looked like a cross between a goat and a cow, was just a few days old. Its nose was still a rosy pink. Mr Zwonitzer is spending more time with the yaks on his ranch just outside Cheyenne, Wyoming’s capital, than he used to. He lost his Republican primary election last year and was ousted from the legislature after serving for 20 years in the state’s House of Representatives. Wyoming politics, he says, “just seems crazier than it ever has in my lifetime.”
