The Bighorn Mountain Ranch near Greybull, Wyoming, is back in the hands of its original owners after six years under Kanye West’s ownership.
As reported by Cowboy State Daily, Greg and Pam Flitner bought back the $14 million, 6,713-acre property from West in a deal notarized on September 17 in Zurich by the rapper’s wife, Bianca Censori.
West had originally purchased the ranch in 2019 from Greg’s father, David, and David’s wife, Paula Flitner, just months after acquiring his 3,885-acre Monster Lake Ranch. At the time, West had big plans to turn the property into a “Yeezy Campus” and use it for shoe production in nearby Cody—though those plans never came to fruition. Greg told Cowboy State Daily that buying back the ranch was partly about restoring what his family had lost.
“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, Greg and Pam tried multiple times to lease the property back but never received a response. The ranch had been listed for sale off and on, and when the Flitners spotted it again in September, they moved fast to reclaim it.
“It was not listed publicly at first,” Pam said. “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 Flitner family’s ranching heritage for generations. Among the historic sites still intact is the family’s cherished Baldridge Cabin, a longtime cow camp headquarters that remains standing thanks to West’s preservation efforts.
“He did not knock down — unlike Monster Ranch — he did not knock down any of the buildings,” Pam shared. “They may need a little TLC, but they’re all solid. He didn’t go in with a bulldozer and take them down.”
