Some of you have been keeping up with my activity on Patreon. Thank you for that. For those who have no idea what it is, here is a brief summary. Patreon is a platform that was developed in 2013 by a musician by the name of Jack Conte. His vision was simple: “…a new […]

Here is some back story of the inspiration of this saddle collaboration with Scott Hardy for the 25th Anniversary TCAA Show

G.K. Chesterton was born in Britain in 1874. I’ve found his insights to be helpful in trying to untangle the world around us today. Here is one of my favorites from him: “But there is one thing that I have never from my youth up been able to understand. I have never been able to […]

“Those are just damn mountains!” Bill Clements was an old timer 35 years ago when I met him. For him those mountains presented economic hardship. He was right. For the rancher, the logger, the trapper, the cowboy, those mountains make for a lot of work, risk, and expense. If you could take a gigantic flat […]

Let’s face it: we live with a lot of chaos in our present day culture. Some of us have lived with it from birth as a sort of default position regardless of culture. I am one of those. Chaos on the one hand, is like a screaming baby that demands attention and wants his way […]

It was the summer of 1983 while working in a saddle shop in Bozeman, Montana where I met a fellow by the name of Harry Cosner. Harry was living in Challis, Idaho at the time and working for a molybdenum mining company there. He told me of a little saddle shop in Salmon, Idaho (about […]

In September 1981 I rode into the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness on a horse named Lucky. I’d hired onto an an outfit whose area had familiar names to me: Magruder, Paradise, White Cap Creek, Cooper’s Flat, Paloma Creek. My dad had spoken often about these places, about the men, the mountains, mules and elk. And now […]