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America's Horse
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Her Own Way
America's Horse
From the time she was little, Reata Brannaman remembers living the life of a rancher’s daughter. She grew up like most ranch kids, tagging along while horses were fed, stalls were mucked and water tanks checked and filled. But other things...
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A legacy of Mentors
America's Horse
It's not a paycheck, not the lure of a competition win or a championship buckle that drew colt-starters to A Legacy of Legends in Fort Worth, Texas, earlier this year. Rather, it’s a chance to continue learning from the horse...
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A Rising Star
America's Horse
It's a chilly morning in stephenville, texas, but as tiedown roper Chase Williams reflects back on the 2016 rodeo season, a warm smile spreads across the 25-year-old’s face. His career highlights already include tying the arena record...
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From the Ground Up
America's Horse
On a usually hot day in May 1997, 12-year-old coleman Proctor and his dad, Keith, made their way to Ron Patton’s farm to try out a 3-year-old, 14.2-hand bay roan gelding that went by the name of “Booger.” On the drive, Coleman’s dad ...
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The Cowboy & the Country Singer
America's Horse
The romance between tie-down roper Tyson Durfey and his country-singer wife Shea Fisher could have been pulled from a Nicholas Sparks novel. One of their memorable chapters was written at the 2015 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo...
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The Green Gray Mare
America's Horse
When it ocmes to selecting a top-notch horse, most team ropers select a horse based on experience, mannerisms and sheer talent. However, they don’t always get that opportunity. In 2013, Blanchard, Oklahoma, heeler Kollin VonAhn encountered...
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Hunter Cure
America's Horse
Steer wrestler Hunter Cure of Holliday, Texas, has a proven mount – Lenas Little Dasher, aka “Charlie” – who helped him win a 2013 world championship and who finished second in the 2015 AQHA Professional Rodeo Cowboys...
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Dakota Eldridge
America's Horse
Passing things down from generation to generation is a fine western tradition, whether that “something” is bloodlines, spurs, passion or a stout sorrel American Quarter Horse. For steer wrestler Dakota Eldridge, it’s the latter...
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Tyler Waguespack
America's Horse
He may be relatively new to the sport, but this steer-wrestling horse works overtime to get the job done. Wranglers Gold Man catches your eye the moment you spot him. The compact palomino gelding is nothing but muscle, and 24-year-old...
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Marty Yates
America's Horse
It's an age-old cliché: a talented young roper meets a horse who will help define his blossoming career. However, sometimes the better story is one that takes a few twists and turns. It didn't start out as a fairytale partnership...
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Paul Melvin
America's Horse
It’s not uncommon for a steer wrestler to put anywhere from six to 10 months on a young horse before taking him out on the road. However, that was not the case for rookie Paul Melvin and his stout mount, 6-year-old Duke W Goldseeker...
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Karen Herbst
America's Horse
Once upon a time, Karen Herbst had an idea of how her life would play out, how her story would be told and the legacy she would leave behind. Raised on her family's cattle ranch in Shoshoni, Wyoming, Karen worked s her father's "right hand man"...
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Shane Hanchey
America's Horse
Shane Hanchey's Sorrel Gelding, Smokin Reata, has been a bridesmaid several tiems in the AQHA-Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association horse of the year balloting. But make no mistake, the 14.2-hand powerhouse of a gelding is...
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Cowboys & Indians
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Reese Riemer
Cowboys & Indians
When Reese Riemer was just 17-years-old he began making big moves in the rodeo world. First by winning the Texas Cowboy Rodeo Association tie-down roping championship followed by winning that same title again two years later...
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Shane Hanchey
Cowboys & Indians
It’s early in the morning at Outlaw Equine Clinic and Rehab Center in Decatur, Texas. Shane Hanchey waits patiently poolside as his horse, Reata, undergoes hydrotherapy, the compact sorrel gelding swimming laps back and forth...
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Cowboy Journal
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My Horse Chicken
Cowboy Journal
I was definitely not impressed the first time I met Chicken. It was Spring 2013, and my aunt, J. J. Hampton, and I were at James Barton’s place in Bluff Dale, Texas, about 20 minutes from my house in Stephenville. If you were watching...
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Turbulence
Cowboy Journal
My Fourth start normal enough. I’d made a good run in Greeley on June 27 and was on a small express jet from Denver to Ponoka. We were cruising along at about 26,000 feet and all of a sudden we heard a loud, sharp pop followed by...
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Things Are Different Now
Cowboy Journal
This picture above was taken at the Reno Rodeo in 2012. I was twenty-eight, and our first born, Tate, wasn’t even a year old. My life as a saddle bronc rider was changing, from going down the road a lot to staying home more to take care of the farm...
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No Shirt, No Hat, No Rodeo
Cowboy Journal
This picture was taken in 2013 at the rodeo in Clovis, California. I was nineteen and in my second year on the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association tour. I’m not going to lie to you—I thought I was way too cool. After all, I was nineteen...
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Due Date
Cowboy Journal
I’m on the bubble, but that’s not the only excitement I’m feeling at the moment. My wife, Randa, is going to give birth any day now. Her due date was September 17th—three days ago! When Randa’s due date rolled around, I was in Oklahoma...
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Home Stretch
Cowboy Journal
My wife was due to give birth nine whole days ago. At first it was a little comical, the craziness of it all. It felt a bit like a movie—the pregnant rodeo wife sitting at home while her man, trying to qualify for the NFR, waits on the call to catch the plane...
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More Surprises
Cowboy Journal
The past seventy-two hours have felt like Cowboy Christmas to me. But it didn’t start out that way. I thought I’d go to Omaha and Kansas City, do a good job and then fly home to be with Randa and forget the rest. I had no intentions of going...
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I Still Believe
Cowboy Journal
The other night, after the Kansas City rodeo, we went to see the Royals play baseball. Tyler’s little boy, Stetson, had his glove and was trying to catch pop flies. A guy hit one our way. We all stood up to try and help Stetson get it...
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Here We Go Again
Cowboy Journal
Let’s just say it’s been a long time coming. Back in 2007, I won the National High School Finals Championships in calf roping and the All Around. I’m a team roper, too, both a heeler and a header. I turned down football scholarships...
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Rough Weekend
Cowboy Journal
I’m coming off a rough weekend and feel the pressure to put some money in the bank. I’m still sitting twelfth in the calf roping and fourteenth in team roping. But that’s not good enough for me. Last week, me and my partner Quinn were...
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Down to the Wire
Cowboy Journal
We were up in Kansas City slack on Wednesday. I really like slack this time of the year. Well, except that it usually starts at 7:00 a.m. It’s quiet, can move pretty quick, and you’re done. Quinn and I were 4.9 in the team roping...
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To the Very Last Steer
Cowboy Journal
This year, it all came down to Stephenville, TX, the last rodeo of the 2018 season on the last day of the season, Sunday. I wouldn’t know if I made the National Finals Rodeo in the team roping until the day was done. I thought I had...
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Cowboy Times Magazine
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Lasting Changes
Cowboy Times Magazine
ne thing is certain, there has always been and will always be rodeo. However, since rodeo because a professional sport in 1936 growth within the industry has been slow. Thousands of cowboys have come and gone, gold buckles won...
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Outlaw Equine
Cowboy Times Magazine
When Outlaw Equine first opened its doors in 2007 Dr. Josh Harvey, DVM probably didn’t expect it to become the landmark it is today. In eight years Outlaw Equine has become the premier equine veterinary clinic in the rodeo community...
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Real American Cowboy
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Hunter Herrin
Real American Cowboy
With 10 years of professional rodeo, seven Wrangler National Finals qualifications, and one AQHA Tie-Down Roping Horse of the Year going into the 2014 NFR, Hunter Herrin has the recipe for success. Since the Apache, Oklahoma native turned pro...
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Paige Stout
Real American Cowboy
It might appear to be another fall day in Weatherford, Texas, bulls being loaded into chutes, the sun glimmering off a cowboy’s spurs, a pretty blonde behind the chutes; today is not like anotherother day though, this is no bull riding event...
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Billy Bob Brown
Real American Cowboy
When Billy Bob Brown was born he wasn’t expected to live, born with a collapsed lung and his heart in the wrong cavity he was given less than a week to survive. Today not only does Billy Bob Brown have a name but he has several rodeo...
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Trent Willmon
Real American Cowboy
Trent Willmon is a prominent singer/songwriter hailing from Afton, Texas. As a songwriter since 1998 Trent has written songs for Brad Paisley, Eric Church, and Little Big Town. He’s know for penning Steel Magnolia’s #1 hit...
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Justin McKee
Real American Cowboy
Justin McKee isn’t just an announcer, he isn’t just a cowboy, he isn’t just a ranchman; Justin McKee is a man of many talents and titles. He affectionately is known as “the Renaissance Man” of rodeo, though he says...
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Fred Whitfield
Real American Cowboy
Fred Whitfield may be well on his way to becoming the “Six Million Dollar Man” but for now he’ll settle for being the “Three Million Dollar Man”, one who also just happens to have 8 World Titles to his name as well as countless arena records...
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Colby Yates
Real American Cowboy
When professional bull rider Colby Yates decided to hang up his bull rope and chaps in August 2012 it was not a decision that was propelled by a significant injury or a particular event, the 32-year old Texas cowboy just realized...
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Sweat RX Magazine
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Pursuing Health
Sweat Rx Magazine
It's funny because I think my eyes were opened to this whole other world of practitioners that can help people become healthier later in the game, probably while I was applying to medical school or even already in med school...
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Masters of the Game
Sweat Rx Magazine
It's 7pm in Toronto, Canada. It's snowing sideways and on a frigid night when the Average Joe would bypass the gym for some time with Netflix, CrossFit Games competitor Matthew Lefave makes his way from his law office to his box...
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Western Horseman
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Houlihan Colt Starting
Western Horseman
Red dust clouds swirl above a country road just outside of Sheridan, Wyoming, as a steady line of trucks and cars make their way to the third annual Houlihan Ranch Colt Starting Clinic. It’s not your average colt starting. Houlihan Ranch...
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DaveThornbury
Western Horseman
For more than 38 years, Dave Thornbury has had a special corner tucked in the back of Calabasas Saddlery in Calabasas, California. There he spends part of his day repairing tack for riders of all disciplines, from rodeo to dressage...
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