The Bighorn Mountain Ranch near Greybull, Wyoming, is back in the hands of its original owners after spending six years under Kanye West’s ownership.
According to Cowboy State Daily, Greg and Pam Flitner bought back the 6,713-acre property from the rapper for $14 million. The sale was notarized on September 17 in Zurich by West’s wife, Bianca Censori.
West first acquired the ranch in 2019 from Greg’s father, David, and his wife, Paula Flitner, just months after purchasing the nearby 3,885-acre Monster Lake Ranch. At the time, West had grand ambitions to turn Bighorn Mountain Ranch into his so-called “Yeezy Campus” and establish a shoe manufacturing operation in Cody — plans that ultimately never came to life.
Greg told Cowboy State Daily that his father’s decision to sell the property motivated him to buy it back. “A lot of times, the estate plan isn’t fully done until you’re in your 50s,” he explained. “And those deals don’t always go the way that you think they might. I was a partner in the ranch — Pam and I were partners in the ranch with my dad and his wife. And so that’s just the way that it went, as far as the estate plan.”
During West’s ownership, the Flitners tried several times to lease the ranch back but never got a response. The property was listed for sale sporadically, and when the couple spotted it again this September, they moved quickly to reclaim it.
“It was not listed publicly at first,” Pam shared. “It was just honestly a fluke that we found out it was listed, and then it was taken down again. But we went ahead and got ahold of the realtor, and it was kind of a rush thing, because it sounded like the people who they were flying in to look at it, a lot of them were speculators. So, we were really worried that someone would get it and then turn it into a giant subdivision.”
The Bighorn Mountain Ranch, originally established by Arthur Flitner in 1906, has been a cornerstone of the family’s cattle operations for generations. Among the historic sites still standing is the Baldridge Cabin — a longtime cow camp headquarters and family favorite that remained untouched during West’s ownership.
“He did not knock down — unlike Monster Ranch — he did not knock down any of the buildings,” Pam said. “They may need a little TLC, but they’re all solid. He didn’t go in with a bulldozer and take them down.”
