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.
Kalea Leyden
Kalea Leyden is part of the team at Ocean View Stables in Daly City, California, which the publisher of The Two Rein owns, and writes for The Two Rein.
John Rarey, the Ohio Horse Tamer Who Performed for a Queen
In January 1858 a farmer's son from Groveport, Ohio, lay down beside a horse in front of Queen Victoria. A century before Dorrance and Hunt, John Rarey made gentleness famous.
Where the Words Natural Horsemanship Came From
The men credited with starting natural horsemanship did not call it that. The name arrived later, and it has been argued over ever since.
Cow Horse, Reining and Cutting
Four Arenas, One Root: Cutting, Reining, Cow Horse and Rodeo
Cutting, reining, reined cow horse and rodeo all began as ranch work. Each has its own association, its own records and its own line of horsemen and horsewomen.