Pretty Shadow Cowboys

Jan 27
Jan Swan Wood

Skipper, a Go Getter of a Pony

Dec 6
Jan Swan Wood

Saddle Horse Warthog

Oct 28
Jan Swan Wood

A Bond Between a Boy and a Horse

Sep 18
Jan Swan Wood

Recent Posts

Pretty Shadow Cowboys

January 27, 2026
Jan Swan Wood

The word had been put out in the area to keep an eye out for a heifer missing from a ranch a little out ofmy neighborhood. Yearling heifers can sure cover some country when they take the notion, so I had been watching for her. I was still riding on about 1800 head of cattle […]


Skipper, a Go Getter of a Pony

December 6, 2025
Jan Swan Wood

All of us who have ridden virtually all our lives have many horses in the memory bank. It all starts with a particular horse and mine was a pony named Skipper. He wasn’t very tall compared to the big saddle horses my dad and siblings rode but he was a go-getter and kept up with […]


Saddle Horse Warthog

October 28, 2025
Jan Swan Wood

Back in our steady day working days, my then husband and I had two royally bred mares who were just phenomenal saddle horses. His was a bay Thoroughbred called Holly and mine was a bay roan, speed bred Quarter Horse called Lily. They were tough, reliable, honest mares that were a true pleasure to do […]


A Bond Between a Boy and a Horse

September 18, 2025
Jan Swan Wood

We’d gotten a call to go help at a branding the next day, so my boy Colin went out in the pasture to catch his horse to have her in for an early start. His horse was turned out with the broodmares on thehayfield by the house, so he headed out across the hayfield with […]


Crippling Kelly, Blind Fox and Cows

September 12, 2025
Jan Swan Wood

It had been a long, hot and dry summer grazing season and it was a relief when the yearling cattle I’dridden on all summer had been shipped. I was short of horses as I’d lost my top horse to lightningmidsummer and had sent the outside horses home that I’d been putting miles on. I still […]


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