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Besides growing his business, Sam Linden appreciates what the King Air 200 does for him personally as well. He says it has made him a better dad because he’s able to do business wherever that may be during the day but be home for his daughter that night.
maximize the personnel on board. He occasionally uses the King Air to travel to the state capitol in Cheyenne, at his own expense.
He first started serving in the House of Representatives in 1987 and has been in the Senate since 2007. He’s the only person in Wyoming history to have had stints as Senate president and speaker of the house during his career.
“Once in a while during the legislative session when we’re working really hard and we all need a break but there are blizzards and difficult road conditions, I’ll take seven or eight members of the legislature on the King Air with me and drop them off on the way home so everyone can go home for the weekend,” he said. “Then we pick them up on the way back.”
The Lindens
The Linden family also has a history in the Riverton area and great entrepreneurial success in the oil business. Mike Linden and son Sam sold one of the oil field service companies they had built together, and the new corporate owner asked Sam to run the business for them for about five years. In that role, Sam bounced from
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OCTOBER 2019
Sam Linden (right) founded Fluid Pro with his father Mike, which provides solids control services and equipment rentals mainly in Wyoming, North Dakota, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Montana and Texas. They are standing in front of upright tanks, some of the equipment they rent.