Tom Dorrance: The Quiet Man at the Start of It
Tom Dorrance left his family's Oregon ranch at fifty, wrote one book and avoided the spotlight all his life. Much of modern horsemanship still traces back to him.
Tom Dorrance, Bill Dorrance and Ray Hunt: their lives, their books and what they changed.
Tom Dorrance left his family's Oregon ranch at fifty, wrote one book and avoided the spotlight all his life. Much of modern horsemanship still traces back to him.
A horse he could not get along with sent Ray Hunt to Tom Dorrance around 1960. What he learned there he spent the next four decades teaching to anyone who would come.
Tom Dorrance's older brother was a roper and a rawhide braider who taught riding through feel into his nineties. His one book came out the year he died.