Nate Champion

Walken in WYO
Walken in WYO
Walken in WYO
I recently heard an amazing story about the night Christopher Walken bellied up to the bar at the Hitching Post in Cheyenne. It was the spring of 1979 and Walken had recently won an Academy Award for his role in The Deer Hunter. The actor had just been cast to play Nate Champion in the film Heaven's Gate, which was based on  Wyoming's infamous Johnson County War...