Saddle Peak Equestrian Center

01/10/2024

Rocky Mountain Breeders Association is a nonprofit group that provides education, shows and sales to improve all aspects of the horse world.

12/01/2023

Browning cowboy Dougie Hall is Montana’s most interesting man. That’s not hyperbole. Hall is a PRCA bronc rider, stock contractor, Hollywood stuntman, Tik-Tok star and motivational speaker.

11/28/2023

You won't believe what just happened! The tree just...passed out! 😹

11/24/2023

Reconstructed 2500-year-old Scythian horse armor unearthed in the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

More about the horse armor and other amazing Scythian artifacts👇
https://earthlymission.com/magnificent-2300-year-old-scythian-womans-boot-discovered-altai-mountains

11/10/2023

I was watching a rodeo recently and they had a calf scramble with about 30 kids ages 8-12 and the same number of calves weighing about 400 lbs. The kids were in a marked off area in the center of the arena that was about 75 feet square.

11/03/2023

It’s hard to miss the entrance to Jim Dolan’s house. A larger-than-life steel monkey popping a wheelie on a motorcycle while holding up the peace sign welcomes

10/09/2023

Native Americans spread the animals across the West before Europeans arrived in the region, archaeological evidence and Indigenous knowledge show

07/15/2023

The Vogelherd horse – the oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in woolly mammoth ivory with flint tools over 35,000 years ago in southern Germany.

Visit https://bio.link/museumofartifacts

07/01/2023

05/25/2023

05/24/2023

05/08/2023

The first load of rubber is on its way! I have some availability end of next week for a few trailers. Pm me to get scheduled!

05/07/2023

A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Photograph: Tatyana Deryabina/University of Porthmouth. & a 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France

Support: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/artifactsmuseum

04/19/2023

The popular narrative that horses were brought to the Americas by Europeans is now being questioned. New evidence suggests that horses were in the Americas independent of European contact. Some native nations have contended that horses have been around since time immemorial, but unfortunately oral traditions and traditional knowledge frequently aren’t regarded as legitimate until Western science validates these claims.

It now looks like archeology is catching up with what some Native nations have always known,
providing yet another example of howIndigenous knowledge and Native ways of knowing must be given equal consideration with
Knowledge from a Western scientific paradigm.

While this new evidence doesn’t confirm that horses have been in the Americas since time immemorial, it does demonstrate that the adoption of the horse is independent of European colonization.

“Native accounts contradicted the timeline centered on the Pueblo Revolt, suggesting some tribes had acquired horses much earlier, but “oral tradition was discounted,” says Comanche historian Jimmy Arterberry, a co-author of the Science study. “The end result has been to discredit the antiquity of the relationship between Native people and horses,” adds University of Colorado, Boulder, archaeologist William Taylor, also a co-author.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/horse-nations-animal-began-transforming-native-american-life-startlingly-early



📸: ©️Greg Child

09/04/2022

Parents, let your daughters grow up to be horse girls, because they will learn quickly and repeatedly that life isn’t fair, that hard work is often trumped by Lady Luck, and that every defeat, no matter how terrible, is temporary. Let them dream big and kick on. Let them learn confidence, grace, and grit. Let them build big muscles and strong backs.

Let your daughters grow up in the barn. Let them learn that buckets need filling and stalls need cleaning, even when it’s raining, even when it’s frozen, even when they have a different idea of how the day should go.

Teach them to drive trucks and trailers and ATVs. Teach them to change tires and wrap legs and give shots. And let them leave a spur mark, a bit rub, or a bandage bow, and let them deal with the shame of causing pain to an animal they love.

Let them grow with horses and with good horse people, because it will teach them to be humble, and to be resilient and to be brave.

By: Lauren Spreiser for Chronicles of the Horse.

Quinn and her mini, Dolly.
Quinn has now moved onto riding big horses but this mini will forever be her first love.❤️Dolly is in her 30’s now and enjoys life at its fullest with her geldings in the pasture.

08/21/2022

The photograph is of a horse that was once named one of the 100 all time American heroes by Life Magazine.

Staff Sergeant Reckless (c. 1948 – May 13, 1968), was a decorated war horse who held official rank in the United States military.

For her exemplary service to the Marine Corps, Reckless was awarded two Purple Hearts (for the wounds received during the Battle of Vegas), a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, a Presidential Unit Citation with bronze star, the National Defense Service Medal, a Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Korea Medal, a Navy Unit Commendation, and a Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation.

She was officially promoted to Staff Sergeant in 1959 by the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

An American Marine gun crew during the Korean War bought the Mongolian bred mare with their own money and trained her to carry shells for the recoilless rifle they called ‘Reckless’.

They also named the mare ‘Reckless’, and she became their mascot and an indispensable member of their gun crew. Reckless often, under heavy fire, made countless trips delivering ammunition from the supply point to the gun. She would often do this alone.

The photograph on this post is of Reckless beside a 75mm recoilless rifle during the Korean War.

I have also read that Reckless completed 51 solo trips in a single day during the Battle for Outpost Vegas in 1953. The battle raged for 5 days and it is estimated that there were over 1,000 American casualties and twice that number of Chinese during the battle. It is regarded as one of the bloodiest battles in Marine Corps history.

Reckless was also used to evacuate the wounded and was injured twice.

In recognition of her incredible war service, she was presented with a special citation for bravery by the Marines and promoted to Sergeant.

The Marines personally payed for her travel to the United States, where she enjoyed a well-earned retirement pastured at Camp Pendleton.

Reckless died in 1968. There are books about Sergeant Reckless.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from Wikipedia.