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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Monday, November 11th. 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. From 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, Cowboy State Daily's Jake Nichols takes you deeper into the stories that matter - and keeps up with the news, weather and sports in your part of Wyoming. Just tune into Cowboy State Daily Dot Com and join the conversation.

Each year on Veterans Day and again on Memorial Day, a small group of people will wind its way through the Mount Pisgah Cemetery in Gillette. It won't be difficult to see which graves belong to military veterans.

But it's the forgotten soldiers that will be the focus of Campbell County Rockpile Museum tour on these days dedicated to America's veterans, reports Cowboy State Daily's Jackie Dorothy.

"These two volunteers from the Rockpile museum came in and started getting the stories of the veterans for their sixth grade class… one of the pet projects they took on themselves was to get new headstones for all of these forgotten veterans ...they started doing tours every Veterans Day and every Memorial Day, they would take groups of people and introduce them to the different veterans."

There are more than 1,000 veterans buried at Mount Pisgah dating back to the Civil and Spanish American wars.

Read the full story HERE.

When a grizzly is charging and milliseconds count, it's best to have a round already chambered in a defensive handgun.

That advice from experienced Wyoming outdoorsmen goes against what Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz has always been told - but he said firearms have come a long way since his dad's days.

"It's been drilled in our heads, especially my head, you know, when I was growing up. And a lot of people will say this, don't have a round in the chamber… A lot of that goes back all the way back to the cowboy days when those old 1880 style revolvers, yeah, those things were weird … even if the thing wasn't cocked, if you bump the hammer just right, the thing would go off. Modern pistols, that doesn't really apply… the idea is, if you get in a situation in the back country, it's going to happen really fast. It's probably going to be at close range. And so you have to have that extra one or two second advantage of already having a round chambered."

Avid Wyoming hunter and mule deer conservationist Josh Coursey told Cowboy State Daily that it's best to have a round chambered in grizzly country - but it's safe only if hunters are familiar and well-practiced with their handguns.

Read the full story HERE.

A Mountain West Conference women's volleyball team with a player reported to be transgender is headed to the championship.

Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that San Jose's 2024 season has been marked by automatic forfeiture wins, including against the University of Wyoming.

"it's been a long saga since September, of teams canceling their matches against… San Jose State University, which is known to have a transgender player, a very formidable outside hitter, Blair Fleming, University of Wyoming canceled its match in early October and did not say why, even though, you know, later, a team out of Reno would specifically say, we're concerned about fairness, we're concerned about safety."

The University of Wyoming is ranked seventh in conference. Its te