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Anna Foulger
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Jan Swan Wood
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Jan Swan Wood
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Jan Swan Wood
August 14, 2024
Anna Foulger
There are horses we ride for a short time, there are horses we ride till they pass, there are horses we sit on once and never see again and then there are the horses that shape us. Shape us as human beings, as riders, horse trainers, men and women; they shape who we are and […]
August 12, 2024
Jan Swan Wood
We day worked for this couple for quite a few years. They had us handle all their cattle work, as they knew they weren’t cowboys. Their business, besides farming, was buying top end heifer calves andgrooming them toward being replacements. We handled them every time they were handled, with the idea of making them the […]
July 27, 2024
Jan Swan Wood
Years ago I had a cow I called Bobbie. Her ears and tail had been frozen off as a calf, so the name fit.She was gentle and I’d milked her some, though her short “handles” made her hard milking. She hadgotten into the pine needles during a storm the winter of her three year old […]
July 24, 2024
Jan Swan Wood
My Dad’s horse of a lifetime was a home raised buckskin gelding named Reno. Reno was absolutely the best horse for any and every job that was necessary on the ranch, plus he moved easy across the country and had a fast walk. He was gentle with no buck, but in no way ever deemed […]
July 18, 2024
Jan Swan Wood
My summer herd cattle hadn’t started shipping out by the time school started that fall. I think I was asenior that year. I got out of a last period study hall with a work release and got home about 3 p.m., andevery day, I saddled a horse headed out to check cattle on the summer […]