![]() The force of the impact had crushed his legs and slammed his seat all the way toward the back of the truck. An ambulance rushed Lesa and Charli to the nearest hospital.īut Archie was stuck. The impact had knocked Lesa out momentarily, but as she came to, she seemed relatively unscathed as well. Aside from little cuts on her face, she seemed OK. Tiny shards of glass clung to her chubby cheeks. The rescuers pried open the back passenger door of the Chants’ pickup and found little Charli anchored safely in her car seat. But the devastating head-on collision nearly cost Archie his life, his legs and everything that made him whole.Īmong the first people who came upon the accident were a truck driver and his wife. When a careless driver threatened their lives, Archie’s quick reflexes saved his girls. ![]() They married in 2014, worked the remote land near Lander that had been in Archie’s family for generations and had Charli the next year. They both came from ranching families and knew how to work hard on isolated land. “If anybody was going to get hit, I was going to take it,” said Archie.Īrchie and Lesa had fallen in love back at University of Wyoming.
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