Articles Tagged 'Working%20ranch'

Dude Ranch Blog

HorseWorks Wyoming- Cowboy Nate’s 92nd Birthday

What do you do for a 92 year old cowboy on his birthday? Throw a party on his working ranch. You're invited! We had to post something to let you know about a fun, upcoming event at HorseWorks Wyoming, a real working ranch that invites travelers to have authentic ranch vacations. Owner and lo...

Dude Ranch Blog

Wyoming Cowboy Horse Poem

Enjoy a cowboy poem about overcoming getting older after 92 years in the saddle from a Wyoming cowboy who's still riding! Nate Brown is a horseman, poet, riding guide, rancher, and co-author of a children's book entitled Roll On, Little Dogies. Still today, at the age of 92, Nate le...

Expert Equestrian Articles

Singer, Writer & Rancher Jessie Veeder on North Dakota Ranch Life

Singer and songwriter Jessie Veeder spent years on tour, performing in coffee houses and music venues, before deciding at the age of 28 to settle back home at her family’s working cattle ranch in the badlands of Western North Dakota, an area that’s undergoing an oil boom. It’s th...

Equestrian Travel Articles

To always ride horses… with Songwriter Jessie Veeder

Singer and songwriter Jessie Veeder, who lives on a working ranch in North Dakota, shares why making time to horse ride with loved ones means so much. by Jessie Veeder Last weekend Little Sister came home for the hustle and bustle and celebration of our nephew's first birthday. Have I me...

Darley’s Travel Blog

Uruguay Gaucho Cattle Drive

Cattle Drive with gauchos... South American cowboys by Darley Newman Working estancias, South American ranches, allow guests to saddle up and help out with daily tasks, like moving cattle across the grasslands. We’d just left a nearby estancia during a storm, and it was our final night...

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Meet Your Host - Double Rafter Cattle Drives

“Compared to us, City Slickers is a pony ride." -- Dana Kerns. Arriving by covered wagon from Missouri in 1887, the Kerns family has a long tradition of raising cattle in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains.  Dana and Alice Kerns, who own and run Doublerafter Cattle Drives, share ...

Equestrian Travel Articles

A Cowgirl in South Dakota- Equine Career on a Working Ranch

A modern cowgirl finds a new life with an equine career at a working ranch in South Dakota by Darley Newman Jenn Zeller, otherwise known online as The South Dakota Cowgirl, was rodeoing, riding and training horses in Texas when she got a job offer to train and start Quarter horse colts at The ...

Equestrian Travel Articles

Cowgirl 101 in Apache Country

By Equitrekking host Darley Newman as published in her column in True West magazine I rode a Mexican Mustang named Pancho through areas that would have felt downright claustrophobic during the days of Apache reign. While astride Pancho in southwestern New Mexico beside the Gila National Fores...