As I sit in my home, trying my best to keep the suggestions and advice from the CDC, FDA, and other US Governmental agencies regarding social distancing, in order to do my part in trying to slow the spread of […]

As you may already know, Count, the horse I talked about in my last post, sold before I even got an advertisement up about him. Count was the second horse his new owner has bought through me. I took her out for a […]

This week I brought Count, a nine year-old registered Missouri Fox Trotter gelding, to my place for some tune-up training prior to putting him up for sale on the Horses For Sale page on this site.

I first […]

It’s been awhile since my last post about my 2019 Alaska moose hunt. Time to sit down and get another one done.

As it turns out, in reviewing my journal entries of the hunt, I discovered that my memory was a […]

UPDATE 12/31/2020:

Copper sold today to a very nice young couple in Fairview, Utah. They have several gaited horses and love to do trail rides and horse pack trips. Copper is going to have a great life with […]

Occasionally, people ask me to do a little training on their horses. My specialty is trail training; I turn good horses into excellent trail horses. My training is a little out of the mainstream, because most of […]

Well, it’s time for another chapter of my Alaska moose hunt.

As we left it last week, Derek and I had finally made it into our hunt camp and were getting settled-in. Our hunting buddies had arrived and I was […]

So, after the conclusion of a far-reaching cooperative agreement between all affected parties regarding land use in southern Utah,  which came as a reaction to President Obama’s self-serving and abusive […]

This is my third post about my 2019 Alaska Moose Hunt.

So, at the end of the last post, Derek and I had made the horse pack trip in to our hunt camp. I said in my last post that we made it to camp during early […]

SOLD – Bandit, Tennessee Walker Gelding Bandit is not for sale at this time. Buckskin Gold Bandit, aka Bandit, is a registered Tennessee Walker gelding (THWBEA 20408448/BU), 16 Continue reading

UPDATE: 05/15/2020:

Trigger is sold to Anthony Dorsey. His family is going to get a big surprise this evening. They’re going to love this horse!

UPDATE 04/28/2020:

I was very sad to learn this morning […]

This is the second post about my 2019 Alaska moose hunt.

Derek Habel, a good friend of mine, invited me to return this year to go on his annual moose hunt in southeastern Alaska. I went with him last year, but […]

SOLD 08/25/2021

CURRENT STATUS (08/19/2021):  Missy is for sale. She is current on Coggins and vaccinations. I intended to ride her through the Grand Canyon in May, but was forced to cancel the ride, due to […]

Well, I guess it’s about time I got a few posts up about my 2019 Alaska moose hunt. I’ll start off talking about some of the gear I took.

This year’s trip was a little different than last year’s. First of all, […]

05/23/2020:  Apollo is sold to Marcia Korver, of Roosevelt, UT. Thanks, Marcia. You’re going to love him!

Apollo is 9 years old (born 2011), stands 15-3 hands (measured), and is a pure-bred Tennessee […]

Those of you who have followed my blog and facebook page, Western Trail Rider, will remember my beaut of a colt, Chief. He’s a gold-registered Missouri Fox Trotter out of my mare (well, she was my mare at the […]

A couple years ago, a very good friend invited me to go with him and some of his buddies on a fishing trip into the Jim Bridger Wilderness area in the Wind Rivers mountain range of Wyoming. I just could not get […]

I’m finally getting around to it.

Last May, Jeff Palmer and I completed another leg of the Mexico-to-Canada horse pack trip my father and I started in the spring of 2015. Dad and I made two legs of the trip, […]