But this year, around three dozen kids chose to trade their screens for the back of a mule at Utah’s annual Cowboy Camp . “I didn't really, like, want to come, but my mom was, like, ‘I signed you up for Cowboy Camp,’” 15-year-old Hadlie King said with a laugh. David Condos / KUER Camper Treyvin Evans from Salt Lake County tries his hand at some archery during an activity rotation at Cowboy Camp, July 8, 2026. David Condos / KUER Cowboy poet Dakota Holdaway shares some of his work with the kids who attended the camp in Tropic, Utah, July 8, 2026. She’s grateful to have found some of that here, and she hopes they’ll all get to see each other again at next year’s Cowboy Camp.