FRESNO, Calif. /*Al Gould*/ told us, "When I was in the 3rd grade my mother give me some beginner tools." The young boy would work leather and dream of riding in Rodeos. Today he's a master with his ...

At a time in which scores of items are mass-produced in places far outside of the United States, Drew Clark's work stands tall. Clark, 54, is a custom saddlemaker in Colcord, Oklahoma, and crafts each ...

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REE HEIGHTS, S.D. - Lonnie Smith's duplicator saw screamed as it trimmed an 8- by 4-foot cut of wood. This process created three wooden bars to be used to create a saddle tree, or a frame around which ...

For a horse and rider to work as one, a third element must be just right, and that’s where Jean Pierre “Pedro” Pedrini of Marysville, Calif., steps in. Like most people at the recent Trappings of ...

Johny Carpenter always had a soft spot for a hard-luck story – even after he became one himself. The Western-movie stuntman never got a chance to die the way he wanted – with his boots on at the Lake ...