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Clean fiction about the outdoors and western lifestyle.

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Hung Up on Social Media

May 5, 2019 by Sam Finden

I’m going to take Twitter and Instagram off my phone. There, I just did it. That didn’t hurt quite as much as I thought it would.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: addiction, Author, cowboy, Facebook, grooming, Horses, Instagram, podcast, productivity, social media, twitter, wasting time

Montana Spring Warmup: Chance the Bay Wonder

April 12, 2019 by Sam Finden

Part of our routine is to handle the horses’ feet every day leading up to the visit. If we do our job right, he cusses less than he did during the previous visit.

Filed Under: Blog, Riding, Writing Tagged With: cowboy, Farrier, horseback riding, Horses, Montana, ponies, riding, rodeo, Runoff, spring, Trail Riding

How I Built a Stock Rack on a Flatbed Truck

September 16, 2017 by Sam Finden

What if I had a horse truck, like they did in the not-so-distant past? I had seen the loading ramps at different Forest Service cabins in the mountains, where truckloads of hardy pack animals had descended from the back of two ton grain trucks and pickup beds. What if, instead of having to worry about tipping my big gooseneck rig off the side of a mountain road, I could simply squeak around the tight corners in style?

Filed Under: Blog, Writing Tagged With: access, Backcountry, cattle, cowboy, diamond plate, do what you love, Elk, elk camp, Elk Hunting, F350, fabrication, flatbed, hauling horse, horse, hunting, hunting story, Hunting Trip, Montana, mountain, Packing, paint, public land, ranching, Sale Barn, stock rack, Trailer, Truck, welding, Western, Wrangling

Good and Cheap

June 1, 2014 by Sam Finden

Dissension in the ranks was not an uncommon thing for Cole. From the teachers he’d resented as a youth, the ones that couldn’t “do,” so they taught, to the glad-handing colleagues he’d hated outright as a young executive, champion do-gooders with poorly-cloaked ulterior motives, there had never been much time in Cole’s life for things […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Auction, Backcountry, beer, cowboy, Elk, Elk Hunting, Fiction, fun, horse, hunting, Meat, Packing, Sale Barn

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