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March 26, 2026
Jan Swan Wood
We were riding on about 1800 steers and 300 cow/calf pairs on a summer range that was split into fourpastures, running for miles east and west but not very wide. The cows were in the furthest east one andthe steers in the others. Dividing every one of those pastures was the most treacherous creek I’ve […]
February 27, 2026
Jan Swan Wood
The first time I ever saw the horse I stopped in my tracks. He was the vision of a using horse that hadlived in my head for several years. The guy who owned him was using him in the sale ring at the cattlesale. As the day went on, I watched the roan gelding without […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]