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August 25, 2025
Jan Swan Wood
My folks had a great working relationship and built a family and a ranch together over the years. Dadworked outside, Mom worked inside, except for her yard and big garden. It was an equitable arrangement that served them well. Mom would drive a feed pickup or drive the pickup pulling one of the hay wagons, […]
August 20, 2025
Jan Swan Wood
The realization that I’ve aged out on most of the work I used to do is bad enough, but watching the good horses I used to do it on is harder in a way. Seeing their once strong bodies get stiff, lame at times, and with more defined bone structure is difficult. My favorites have […]
August 2, 2025
Jan Swan Wood
Attitudes sometimes need adjusted in all species. Horses are no exception. I’d raised a mare who had many good qualities and was very people friendly. Her mother had been an outstanding using horse andthis young mare was on track to be the same. Her mother had also been the boss mare on the place. Not […]
July 23, 2025
Jan Swan Wood
In the 1920s my grandad, Bill, was what would be described as an all around type of cowboy andrancher. He was a tough bronc rider, due to the fact that the horses he traded for were usually outlawtypes. He could ride horses that other men couldn’t work in harness, plus he could work them in […]
July 10, 2025
Carrie Stadheim, TSLN Editor
Three of four Montana High School Rodeo Association team roping national qualifiers are sibling groups At least three sets of Montana siblings were wearing big smiles when the Montana High School Rodeo finals came to a close. Maybe it’s in their genes, maybe it’s all due to practice and hard work. Probably a little of […]