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A Montana Schoolhouse Revisited
The Bear Creek School House is a warm place to go on a cold spring Saturday night. Photography: Thomas Lee One room, no running water, no students in 70 years. But as photographer Thomas Lee shows,...
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Keith Valley Saddle Co. Keeps Traditional Craftsmanship Alive
Photography: Christina Clusiau/Courtesy Deluxe Corporation's Small Business Revolution In an era when business is dominated by factory production, Keith Valley is keeping traditional craftsmanship...
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The Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate Sale
Photography: Courtesy Fort Worth Stock Show Syndicate The Junior Sale of Champions makes for compelling competition and is a great help to pursuing higher education. The day begins to wane as the crowd...
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Profiles in Rodeo: Cole Elshere
Photography: James Phifer/Rodeobum.com The young bronc rider is setting the stage for a successful career in the arena. The rodeo at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo in Fort Worth, Texas, is as full...
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The Steady Rise of Conrad Anker
The man from Montana has amassed a mountain of climbing fame — and accolades for the new IMAX national parks tribute featuring him. Great mountain climbers tend to share two common traits: an...
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Extreme climber Conrad Anker makes an IMAX film fit for a centennial. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, creating a new federal bureau called the National Park Service. Its...
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The Women of the Last Great Race
DeeDee Jonrowe heads down the re-start chute of the 2008 Iditarod Sled Dog Race at Willow, Alaska. Photography: Jeff Schultz/www.iditarodphotos.com For the women who mush almost 1,000 miles across...
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Hitched Horsehair Bridles Have a History Behind Bars
Photography: Ned Martin Before they produced license plates, inmates in the West served some artistic time making hitched horsehair bridles. The flowing mane and tail of the horse have been used for...
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Ranching Family Values
Ranch sorting is one of the fastest-growing equine sports thanks to a family-friendly format that encourages riders from 7 to 77 to saddle up and get in the pen. For the Day family, ranch life was...
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The Miles City Bucking Horse Sale Is Like Mardi Gras for Cowboys
In the world of rodeo, the Miles City Bucking Horse Sale is in a category all by itself. Some folks refer to the annual bucking horse sale in Miles City, Montana, as the Mardi Gras for cowboys (this...
View ArticleCreate Your Own Vintage Dream Machine
Convert a vintage truck into a dream machine with Legacy Classic Trucks. I haven’t always understood boys and their toys. But then I saw my first Legacy Power Wagon, and I could swear my biceps flexed....
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Oklahomans, OK!
“Okla” is Choctaw for people. As much as it’s red earth and blue skies, mountains and lakes, tornadoes and earthquakes, and oil and gas, it’s Reba and Blake and hundreds of other Oklahomans who’ve...
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Paradise Found
Photography: Courtesy Philmont Scout Ranch At Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico, the legend began long before the Boy Scouts showed up. Boy Scouts come from all 50 states to test themselves...
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Where Have All The Monarchs Gone?
The good news about the precipitous decline in the population of everyone’s favorite migrating butterflies? It’s not too late to reverse it. Sometime between mid- and late March each year, they’d...
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The Exhilarating Indian Relay
Photography: Hannah Potes/Billings Gazette Colorful uniforms, high-speed horse races, and energized crowds are the perfect equation for the West’s most exciting ride. Promoters call it America’s first...
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Bear in Mind
It’s important to proceed with caution when heading into grizzly territory. You’ve got to know the rules. That’s true with most things in life, but especially if you’re interested in observing grizzly...
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Cowboying on the Sagebrush Sea
Tending to livestock in Nevada’s Great Basin was and is a lonely job. But the life and the landscape aren’t as sparse as they might seem. Tending to livestock in Nevada’s Great Basin has always been a...
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Video: Luke Branquinho is The Bulldogger
A short film lets us into the life of driven steer wrestler Luke Branquinho. “We always knew that he was going to be there from an early age. That guy had the drive and the desire.” That's what just...
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Have Horse, Will Travel
To be the Working Ranch Cowboys Association world champion, you’ve got to live the cowboy life inside and outside of the arena. Travis Duncan does just that. The trio of rider, horse, and calf swerve...
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But Now I Ride
Photography: Richard Field Levine After being asked to contribute an essay to C&I’s cowgirl issue, I carried the idea with me for weeks. But it was winter, the cows were situated, and I was in my...
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