Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi Cowboy Bob, I was wondering what is the significance of mounting the horse on the left side? Why don’t people do it on the right side? Where did this tradition originate from?? Thanks for all your help! — L. S. ANSWER: Mounting from […]
Picketwire The Canyon of the “río de las ánimas perdidas en Purgatorio,” — or Purgatoire River — in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Hand-colored photograph taken by William Henry Jackson, c.1899. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Overall, is horseback riding safe? I could not resist the urge today to look up horseback riding accidents so that I could see what “could” happen and I guess it sort of scared me. I rode a horse for the first time on Saturday […]
Sougan A cowhand prepares to hit the sack in his sugan on the Walking X Ranch in Texas in 1939. Photo courtesy of Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Hi! I need help! When I ride bare-back on my horse, I am slipping off all the time! How can I get better balance and stay on at the walk, trot, canter, and hand gallop? Am I slipping off because my horse is so […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Bob, Can you tell me how much weight a mustang can carry on his back. My daughter wants to ride my mustang but she thinks she weighs too much for him to carry. She weighs over 200 lbs., without disclosing her weight. He is […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Howdy, Bob, I live in Tennessee. and enjoy your site SO VERY MUCH. What do you do to stop a horse from wanting to move on you when trying to get on him? PLEASE HELP…. Keep on with the good site. Y’all come, you […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: I have just found my horse eating his own manure. What does this mean and why is he doing it?. — F. G. ANSWER: Eating manure — “coprophagia” is what the vet may call it — is normal, even desirable, in foals during the […]
Oater The opening title screen from the 1936 Republic Pictures film “Winds of the Wasteland, staring John Wayne. Republic Pictures was formed in 1935 from a merger of Monogram, Mascot, and several smaller studios. Long associated with low budget sagebrush sagas, Republic Pictures was out of the filmmaking business by the end of the 1950s.
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Are laminitis and founder a form of colic? I know there are a thousand ways to colic. Is founder curable or is it the beginning of the end? Is laminitis something that can go away in time? A. G. ANSWER: “Colic” is simply an […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: When My horse (Cody) was 18 mo. He bit me and and almost took my breast off. I’ve been around horses all my life. Never been bit, kicked or even ribbed. After Cody did this, I had him gelded because for a stallion he […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: …And a second question: How much weight can a pack mule reasonably carry, and for how long? Setting: Rocky Mountains, daytime, climbing from 6,000 to 10,000 feet – only some steep inclines, e.g., as in switchback trails. Respectfully, D. S. ANSWER: During World War […]
Ocotillo Photo of a large Ocotillo, taken by Stan Shebs near Thousand Palms Oasis in Coachella Valley, California. Although covered with cactus-like spines, Ocotillo is not a true cactus. It is native to the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. When it rains, the Ocotillo quickly becomes lush with […]
Return to Questions and Answers Index Q&A Questions and Answers: QUESTION: Bob, The other day, I was riding my horse in the indoor arena with two other horses. One horse was being long-lined and the other ridden. The two ladies and their horses are well known to me and my horse. The horse being long-lined […]