Trump's lonesome cowboy
The reason I was in Wyoming was to watch the state convention election of its 14 delegates.
It is the "Cowboy State". There were big hats and guns openly being carried on hips.
Mr Cruz was the only candidate to speak. He received standing ovations. Even the Governor of Idaho Butch Otter — there speaking on behalf of John Kasich — was clapping and laughing at Mr Cruz's speech.
Alaskan Governor and Trump supporter Sarah Palin pulled out of the event; a fourth-generation rancher spoke on Mr Trump's behalf instead.
It didn't help that on the day of the vote Mr Trump declared "I'm not wasting my money" on Wyoming because the "party bosses" had already stitched the vote up.
Well, the vote only went one way: all 14 of the state delegates are now pledged to Mr Cruz.
Wyoming Republican Party chairman Matt Michaeli would not comment on whether Mr Trump was a sore loser, but he did say his state had used the same rules for delegate selection since 1974.
That also includes voting for national delegates at its county level, which the state did last month. Mr Cruz wrapped up nine of them, one is pledged to Senator Marco Rubio (who has now dropped out, but is holding onto his delegates) and one is undeclared.
Then there is Dr John Baker, the only pledged delegate in Wyoming for Mr Trump, who I met at the convention.
He only won by two votes — 21 to 19 at his Teton County ballot in Jackson, the popular ski spot. The chairwoman of the county resigned in protest.
Dr Baker is a dermatologist, a 20-year Navy veteran and a self-declared political novice. While watching a local rodeo in Casper, Wyoming, we talked about his reason for supporting Mr Trump.
"I like that he's a political outsider and he's, you know, making a statement and he's saying what he believes and he's not being politically correct," Dr Baker said.
"He's a New Yorker, he's a street fighter. He doesn't give up," he said, as we watched a young rodeo rider fall and get kicked by a horse before eventually being helped to his feet and staggering from the arena.
For Dr Baker, major problems like the national debt are only issues that Mr Trump can address. He also adds that Mr Trump is not a "war-monger" (because of his vote against the Iraq invasion).
He is also sick of the current Republican establishment and suggestions about vote-buying only play to the message of the New York billionaire.
"What I really like about him is that he's not bought and paid for," he said.
"He hasn't been paid for by the lobbyists. He's not paid for by the donor class. He's not a politician."
Wyoming's Republican Party chairman Matt Michaeli clearly didn't like the comments of his state's National Committeewoman, Marti Halverson, who said "cash is on the table".
"There won't be any gifts, there won't be any exchange of anything," he said.
"We'll go [to Cleveland], we'll be responsible to represent Wyoming and we'll cast a vote in accordance with that."