Post-Frame Building Materials in Medicine Bow, WY

Medicine Bow’s Source for Ranch Buildings, Wind Country Infrastructure & Post-Frame Structures

Medicine Bow is a tiny town with a big Wyoming story — Owen Wister immortalized this high-plains community in “The Virginian,” and the same open, windswept landscape that defined the cattle-trail era now hosts some of Wyoming’s most significant wind energy development. The Medicine Bow Wind Project and surrounding turbine fields make this area one of the most actively developed wind corridors in the American West, while the traditional cattle ranching economy continues on the surrounding range. Contractors building here deal with two realities: one of the windiest construction environments in the United States, and a remote location that demands a supplier who can actually deliver.

Western Building Supply is approximately 100 miles southeast of Medicine Bow via I-80, making us one of the closer full-service post-frame manufacturers to this market. That proximity matters here — when you’re building on the high plains at 6,500 feet in one of Wyoming’s most exposed counties, you need materials engineered specifically for that environment, and you need them to arrive complete and on schedule. We design trusses and wall systems for the extreme wind loads of Carbon County’s open range, and we deliver complete packages — trusses, steel panels, columns — in a single coordinated shipment that gets your crew building without waiting on backorders.

When Medicine Bow contractors need materials engineered for Wyoming’s windiest high-plains country, they call Western.