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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Monday, September 23rd. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show with Jake! Launching October 1st at 6 a.m., Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols is making morning radio cool again. Tune in from wherever you are for the latest news, weather, sports and in-depth conversations that matter to you.

It's never too late for a first, and there was a big first to celebrate at the 43rd Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale's live auction this weekend.

When Lot 101, the oil painting "Trout Peak Traverse" by Mark McKenna, sold for $9,000, auctioneer Troy Black told the crowded tent of patrons and artists that in his years of doing this show, they have never hit $1 million on the first night - until that moment. And Cowboy State Daily's Andrew Rossi was there.

"As opposed to just going to cover it, I was actually writing down the amounts and the bid numbers as they came in, and adding them up as they went along. And it was really cool the moment when the one piece was sold, that they crossed a million dollar mark. That was the first time that they had crossed a million dollars the first night of the show… that's part of the excitement and the adrenaline and the atmosphere that keeps people coming back year after year after year. They come for the bidding wars. They come for the camaraderie, and they come to watch as the art goes up in value, and people want to see these contemporary Western art pieces in their homes and museums."

By the end of Friday's auctions, 98 of the 104 pieces in the 43rd Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale had been sold. Only six pieces didn't meet their reserve at auction.

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It's not every day when a plane lands in front of you on Interstate 25 - but it happened on Saturday morning to Levi and Kelsi Dutton of Casper.

Cowboy State Daily's Jimmy Orr reports that the couple was driving down to Cheyenne for their daughter's softball game when they spotted a single engine airplane about 150 feet off the ground flying directly over the highway about 23 miles north of Cheyenne.

"The plane was able to pull over. They pulled over right after and and they got out, and they started talking to the pilot. The pilot was completely calm. He was he just said, Yeah, I'll be able to fix this thing… So he got out of his toolkit, started fixing it on the side of the road… He was able to do whatever he did, and then took off again on the interstate and was able to fly to Cheyenne… we did speak with a chief instructor for an aviation school, Mitch Semel, who said that it was a remarkable story, because they teach the flight instructors, teach pilots… If you're in trouble, highways are pretty good, but there's always the fear of trees and signs and traffic. But here in Wyoming, at 8: 30 in the morning on a Saturday, there's some pretty good chance that you can land it."

Semel said instructors teach not so much the best option in an emergency situation, but what's the least bad option.

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Dust devils are sometimes the only life David Belus can see on his Johnson County ranch as he looks out over miles and miles of scorched earth.

He told Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean that the whirlwinds are a disquieting sign of the erosion he knows is happening across not only his land, but across all the other acres upon acres that have burned up in the