Welcome to Western Trail Rider, a site dedicated to those who enjoy horse and mule packing, camping, and trail riding in the western United States.
Do you ride great trails regularly and have a desire to share the information? Heading off on a wilderness adventure with your horse? Are you an outfitter or guide? How about a supplier with packing experience or tack and gear reviews? Want to start a blog under the WTR banner? Get some free exposure and help us promote the website and increase our membership. It just takes minutes to get you started. Send me an email.
Come join the fun!
Click on the WTR Blogs menu button above to read about our trail rides and pack trips. You can also find my facebook page at Western Trail Rider, where I post about events, horses for sale, and other things, as well as my YouTube channel at Western Trail Rider, where I occasionally post videos from my rides.
I recently added a “Horses for Sale” button on our main menu. When I have horses for sale, I will list them in blog post form on this page. Just scroll through them to find the trail horse of your dreams! These are horses that I have personally verified as being excellent trail horses. I am so confident in the trail-worthiness of these horses that I offer a 15-day money-back trial period, to make sure the new owner and the horse are compatible. I will update each post as new information is available.
Please report to me any malfunctions or other issues you may experience on the site, so I can correct them.
Tony Henrie
tony.henrie@westerntrailrider.com
This site is strictly “G-Rated” and family oriented.
Tony, thank you, as you know I’m unable to ride due the circumstances I am in. You blog allows me too vicariously follow your exploits on the trail. Plese continue with your blog. even if it has long stretches of nothing. When you do post it is with much pleasure to read what you have to say. t doesn’t matter what part of horse lore you blog about i learn a lot. I hope you are doing well.
Jack
Hello Tony!
I just read your blog in which you discussed locations as mentioned in Louis L’Amour novels. Thank you for an intelligent, sincere and respectful commentary on the subject!
I’ve read and collected most of the Louis L’Amour novels, beginning from the time I rode the range in the Chilcotin area of British Columbia in 1982, when I was 14 years old. As an adult, I often wondered if it would be possible for the author to accomplish riding or walking by all those geographic locations, as mentioned in the books. I began to map out some of the trail rides, mountain passes, outlaw trails and consider the amount of time it would take to travel that vast territory.
Louis L’Amour was under pressure, as I understand it, by his publishers to write a number of novels every year and that in and of itself takes a lot of time. I came to the conclusion that he wrote of areas that certainly will be there, but I had doubted that each one of those veins of ore, marked by a bit of white, gleaming in the sun if you see it at just the correct angle with the perfect ray of sun, secret water hole, or forgotten cave, most likely don’t exist. Your experience and actual knowledge from living and working the land in Utah seems to confirm my conclusion.
I found your blog because I’m finally going to be in your neck of the woods in March 2024 on a family vacation. I haven’t ridden the range on horseback since my childhood days but love to hike and see nature whenever possible. We will have a basecamp around Williams and venture throughout the area for 5 days.
Thanks for the comments. Look up my fb page (Western Trail Rider) and let me know when you are in the area and maybe we can get together for a ride or two!