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AGPride8 You grow it. They serve it. Jeri Dobrowski

These four local restaurants, from across the Tri-State region, go to great lengths to deliver the highest quality products to their custom-ers – even if it means getting locally-grown meats and produce.

18 Never quite satisfied Holly Thomas

Gary Johnson’s abilities as a silversmith have continued to grow since he made his first set of spurs in the ‘80s. Customer satisfaction is his main goal.

24 Hulett School Farm Heather Hamilton

The school farm in Hulett, WY, has become an integral part of the school’s curriculum and provides many children a hands-on opportu-nity that they might not otherwise have.

28 Provider Pals Heather Hamilton

Those in ag have realized the importance of informing consumers on what agriculture is all about. Provider Pals is an in-school program to teach students across the nation the importance of ag in their lives.

34 Lockie irons it all out Carrie Stadheim

John Lockie has made a side business out of his love for making art out of iron. His unique talents are just what some people want when they are looking for a custom ranch or business sign.

42 The kids to call Carrie Stadheim

For many years youth in the Buffalo, SD, area have made a job out of working brandings for local ranchers, but these young men also learn responsibility and organization while having fun.

46 Terry Wood Heather Hamilton

Quality custom-made furniture is not always easy to find, but Terry Wood has mastered the art of turning a unique piece of wood into beautiful work of art that would match any western theme.

50 An ancient trade maintained Loretta Sorensen

The wheelwright trade may have lost its business appeal to many tradesmen since the evolution of transportation but Bob Svangstu has found enjoyment in maintaining the ancient trade for his customers.

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Alva, WY - Foothills setting in the Belle Fourche River Valley. 163 acres with irrigat-ed fields & wooded knolls. 72 acres under irrigation with an Artesian well. An efficient five bedroom home with geo-thermal heating and cooling. Numerous outbuildings includ-ing garage, shop, barn, open front sheds. Self watering heated tanks. This scenic and productive ranch has a great set of improve-ments, incredible vistas, and it is close to all of the amenities in the Black Hills region. $1,150,000.

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Newcastle, WY - Impressive setting on 484 acres in the western Black Hills between Newcastle and Deadwood. Custom three level cedar log home designed for entertaining and features maple and hickory flooring, a massive fireplace, French doors, hot tub, extensive decking, and two on-grid alternative power sources. Two-car garage and a shop. This scenic landscape includes wooded hills, hay meadows, and rugged country with deer, elk and turkey. Within 15 minutes of National For-est. $1,350,000.

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Aladdin, WY - Country estate with 186 acres on Oak Creek. A beautiful setting with a one of a kind home that combines maximum ef-ficiency with detailed elegance. Many cus-tom features: deluxe kitchen, custom cabi-netry, solid Caesar stone counters, private den, spacious master suite, spa tub, gas fireplace, in-floor heat, hard-wood flooring, French doors, wrap-a-round porch. Guest house, horse barn, 40’ x 120’ shop & outdoor riding arena. An exceptional Black Hills find. $1,387,000

Oak Creek Retreat

Sundance, WY - 1,299 acres in a private location along Little Houston Creek. The ranch has diverse terrain that includes the high plateaus of Harvey Divide, rugged hills with pine and bur oak trees, brushy draws, hay meadows and wide vistas. The land has numerous building sites with southern expo-sure. One of the old homestead sites has a water well and electricity. The Little Houston Creek drainage has several springy areas and there two reservoirs. A secluded west-ern Black Hills setting. $2,266,000.

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Hulett, WY - Ranch headquarters in the rolling foothills along Government Can-yon Creek. 358 acres including about 200 acres of farm ground. Located in a wide valley with rolling fields and rangeland pastures. Scattered cottonwood trees line the creek bottoms. The headquarters in-cludes a 4 bdrm double wide, a 40’ x 60’ shop, barn & several sheds. Water re-sources include 2 wells, 3 reservoirs and a seasonal creek. $650,000. Smaller acre-age available.

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Alva, WY - Premier 85 acre horse property on the Belle Fourche River with a newer set of buildings. 2004 manufactured home features the “ultimate” kitchen, stainless steel appliances, a garden tub, pellet stove, laminate wood flooring and hot tub. 36’x44’ horse barn with room for stalls, heated tack room, hay storage & a center alley. Also has a 36’x56’ shop and a lighted roping arena. Enjoy the winding river bottoms of the Belle, wide vistas and privacy at a first-rate horse property. $495,000.

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Steakhouses and restaurants value a reliable source of consistent, quality ingredients as surely as pro-ducers rely on dependable transpor-tation and marketing channels. Both facts are likely lost on the average diner seated at a table perusing a menu.

Developing a new menu item or placing a standing order for their sig-nature dish, restaurant owners and managers expect to receive what they order. In reality, beyond inevitable price increases, they need to roll with the punches of seasonal short-ages, quality issues caused by erratic weather conditions, substitutions, and product unavailability.

A growing trend in the restaurant business is augmenting traditional food distribution deliveries with locally-sourced or premium-quality specialty items. The abbreviated Northern Plains growing season gen-erally restricts farm-to-table produce

sourcing to a five-month period. Meats enjoy a year-round advantage thanks to overnight delivery services. Still, farmer-raised meat isn’t without its issues, as producers must have ac-cess to federally-approved process-ing plants, which may mean trans-porting live animals long distances for slaughter.

In some instances, the personal relationship with the producer or cooperative may be as important as the product itself. Chefs like know-ing where the ingredients come from; they like knowing who raised them and under what conditions. Custom-ers like it too.

As the following profiles re-veal, there’s an enormous amount of thought, planning, acquisition, and preparation that go into a dish before it’s set in front of you. For ag produc-ers, it’s the culmination of a similar series of steps in bringing the product to market.

You grow it. They serve it.

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Executive chef Stuart Tracy speaks fondly of shopping at a New York City fish market where he selected what he would be serving that day. A 1985 graduate of the Culinary In-stitute of America, Tracy is co-owner of the Pirogue Grille in landlocked, downtown Bis-marck, ND.

A native of Minot, ND, Tracy was lured back to North Dakota from California by a position at The Rivery, south of Bismarck. He credits his time there for his growth as a cook and his understanding of local menu ideas. In September 2005, he and his wife, Cheryl, opened their first ownership-restaurant, nam-ing it for a canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk, such as was used by the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery. They encourage people to stop by for a “culinary journey.”

The menu changes seasonally, offering a mix of new and signature dishes, inspired by great food from around the world. Tracy shops daily for produce. During the winter, he frequents wholesale establishments oth-ers might shop at. During North Dakota’s short growing season, a large portion comes from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) network that provides organic produce to the Bismarck area. The CSA supplies 40-50 pounds of zucchini per week from June through September. He also shops farmers’ markets.

“I get one drop a week from my restaurant supplier,” Tracy notes. “My Black Angus beef comes from them. The buffalo comes from the bison cooperative at New Rockford, ND.

Through the miracle of overnight delivery ser-vices, the walleye comes from Minnesota and Canada, the pork from Minnesota and Iowa, and our lamb from Oregon.”

Pirogue Grille used to feature North Dako-ta-raised lamb, but lost the source when the producer sold out and returned to her native New Zealand.

Deer for the house-specialty venison sau-sage appetizer comes from the Broken Arrow Ranch in Texas, which also supplies antelope for antelope medallions. Tracy appreciates the consistent quality of the field-harvested wild game, proclaiming them both “phenom-enal products.”

The ubiquitous ruby-red rhubarb plant steals the show early in the growing season with the Grille’s signature rhubarbtini. It’s fol-lowed by chokecherry chocolate praline ice cream, Cheryl hand-picking the berries when they ripen in late summer.

Sourcing foods locally whenever possible caught the attention of Gourmet Magazine, which named Pirogue Grille among its 2007 Top 100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America in the Meat Rules category. “I’ve been reading the publication since I was a teenager,” Tracy said. “It was a career high. It brought a lot of local press and increased the awareness.”

In 2012, Midwest Living Magazine spot-lighted the Grille’s lamb burger, naming it one of the 25 Best Burgers. In 2010, a reader poll at ThinkTasty.com named it the Best Restau-rant in the Rocky Mountain Region.

Pirogue Grille Casual Fine Dining

venison sausage appet izer

new York steak

bison medal l ion

rhubarbt ini

chokecher r y chocolate pral ine ice cream

70 seatsDinner: Tuesday-Saturday starting at 5 p.m.

AwArdsTop 100 Best Farm-to-Table Restaurants in America by Gourmet MagazineLamb burger named one of 25 Best Burgers by Midwest Living Magazine, June 2012

121 N 4th st, Bismarck, Nd 58501(one block from downtown parking ramp)

(701) 223-3770www.piroguegrille.com

Stuart & Cheryl Tracy, proprietors

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With 30 years spent working in the cattle nutrition field, Kansas State grad Ed Sa-batka knows beef. From helping ranchers develop heifers to collecting carcass data at the packing plants, he knows what goes into producing beef. As a restaurateur since 1978, he also knows how to select and pre-pare beef – what he calls “a great protein. Digestible. Exactly what we need as hu-mans.” It is not an exaggeration to say he’s passionate about beef.

Get Sabatka talking about the menu at Uncle Ed’s Steakhouse, the restaurant he owns and operates with his wife, Anita, and his years of balancing nutritionally-complete cattle rations become apparent. He feels humans should eat as well as the herds he consulted for. As such, he added a special greens mix to the salad because, “It doubles the vitamins and minerals as com-pared to iceberg lettuce.” Potatoes served at the Grand Island, Nebraska steakhouse have to pass muster as well. “We get them from Rigby, Idaho,” Sabatka said. “They have thicker skins, more potato taste, more minerals and nutrients.”

Sabatka views the development of a dish in his steakhouse as he would a livestock ration. “Cattle use vitamin A for the same reason people do. Once food gets past a bo-vine’s first three stomachs, they digest their food the same as people. Combining fresh ingredients that are pleasing to the palette results in a euphoric feeling. Vegetables in our meatloaf add nutrition and flavors to the

package. They elevate the flavor sensations. A great tasting dish is really a science com-position. Processed foods people are eating today are causing acid stomach and reflux.”

With more than 60 regular menu entrees plus weekday blue-plate features, Sabatka’s kitchen is brimming with quality meats and ingredients he’s personally selected: pre-mium reserve Angus (grading in the upper third of USDA Choice Angus and awarded to the top 5-8 percent of all Angus beef); Michigan lamb; Omega-3-rich sea bass (he serves it with a lime/mango salsa); three aged cheeses used in the cheesy au gratin potatoes; fresh-cut vegetables.

Steaks are broiled, not seared. Sabatka explained: “Frequent turning under a 350-400 degree broiler gives a beautiful ma-hogany color to the exterior, optimizing the natural sugars. You won’t see a shadow line in my steaks. They are consistently done, top to bottom.”

An unabashed beef cheerleader, Sabatka says his kitchen staff is used to him bringing curious customers into the kitchen. “I show them the cooler, explain the cooking pro-cess. I want them to understand what makes a great steak.”

Uncle Ed’s Steakhouse was honored with the 2009 National Independent Restaurant of the Year Beef Backer Award by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the 2009 Nebraska Beef Backer Restaurant of the Year by Nebraska Beef Council.

uncle ed’s Steakhouse

165 seatsLunch: Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Dinner: Monday-Saturday 5-9 p.m.

AwArds: 2009 Nebraska Beef Backer Restaurant of the Year by Nebraska Beef Council2009 National Independent Restaurant of the Year Beef Backer Award by National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

2624 s. Locust st., Grand Island, NE(308) 381-4600

www.uncleedssteakhouse.comEd and Anita Sabatka, executive chef/owners




Steaks, both beef and buffalo

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Built in 1893 on the corner of Fifth and Illinois in Spearfish, SD, the Lown Mercan-tile building continues to serve patrons from eastern Wyoming and the northern Black Hills. All but a handful of the hardware, machinery, and domestic items that once filled the 2-story sandstone building are gone. Today, customers cross the threshold for steakhouse fare and quite possibly – at 18-1/2 feet in length – the longest salad bar in the Black Hills.

In addition to the made-in-house salads and soups that fill the considerable length of the salad bar, diners can select from a variety of beef, buffalo, chicken, pork, and salmon entrees. The beef – aged USDA Choice Black Angus – comes from produc-ers in the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado. The establishment is known as “a place for steaks,” listing their signature dishes under a “grazers” header: ribeyes, New York strip, filet, medallions, sirloin, and steak tips. Also offered are a buffalo sirloin and a combination buffalo-and-elk chopped steak.

Situated in the heart of the Black Hills, a popular tourist destination, restaurant gen-eral manager Eric Caple says the bulk of the customer base is regional. “We see an increase during the summer months,” he noted, “but ranchers are our bread and but-ter. Lately we’re seeing oil workers who are living here and commuting to North Dakota.

“People have a lot of choices as to where they can eat,” Caple continued. “It’s our

goal to provide great food with great service at a good value with a pleasant ambience. I want our customers to feel their money was well spent.”

With 40-plus years’ experience in the hotel, restaurant, and catering business, Caple recently reworked the wine and beer list. “I’m pleased with what we’ve done with it. It’s a nice list and reasonably priced. Wine goes well with beef. It also looks great displayed behind the bar in the floor-to-ceiling rack that’s accessible with a rolling library ladder.”

Sunday at The Bum Steer features the popular Sunday buffet. In addition to the salad bar, guests can select from make-your-own omelets and pancakes, potatoes, top sirloin, and carved meats.

All orders at The Bum Steer are served with a side of history. Architect-owner Todd Crowe purchased the building in 1996. He worked to save the 103-year-old former gen-eral store which has been recognized for its significance by the Spearfish Historic Pres-ervation Commission. High ceilings typical of the era and hardwood floors are accented by tables dressed with white tablecloths and napkins. True to its roots, one wall displays the original wooden bins that once held staples such as oatmeal, coffee, and nuts. Original art decorates the space in addition to a display of period-appropriate equip-ment including a cream separator and an enormous coffee grinder.

the Bum Steer on 5th Steakhouse

120 seats (private reception hall on second floor, Bella Luce, seats 25-100) Lunch & Dinner: Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.Sunday: 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.Sunday: Brunch Buffet 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Reservations suggested for large parties

701 5th st., spearfish, sd (605) 717-8337

Todd Crowe, ownerEric Caple, general manager



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12 oz. ribeye and jumbo shr imp

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Lauren Anderson sees an interesting shift in the demographics at the restaurant she co-owns with her husband: more young families coming in, especially on Sundays. The num-ber-one menu item that kids order? A cheese-burger. Number two? Soup and salad.

Anderson knows exactly what’s in the soup and salads youngsters consume at The Sham-rock Club because they’re made fresh daily in-house. The bread is baked fresh as well. She said, “I don’t ever have to look at a pack-age label to tell a customer what’s in some-thing if they ask about allergens.”

Located in Wibaux’s historic district, The Shamrock is one of eastern Montana’s best-known eating spots. John and Joyce Anderson established the restaurant in 1986, decorat-ing the interior with antique bits, spurs, and guns. Their son Edward and daughter-in-law Lauren assumed ownership in 2007.

There’s a comfortable family restaurant in one end and a bar and casino in the other. Guests come as they are. On any given sum-mer day, there are pickups with horse trailers parked across the street and a row of gleaming motorcycles carefully angled in by the front door. In spring, young couples dressed to the nine’s enjoy a meal before the prom, and in the fall hunters stop by for a once-a-year visit.

There’s one steak on the menu: a ribeye. Other entrees include 7-oz. hamburgers, hamburger steak, prime rib, halibut, walleye, ribs, and the monster Shamrock Burger – a towering creation featuring two patties topped with mushrooms, Swiss cheese, bacon, let-

tuce, tomato, and onions. Hands down, the biggest seller is a 12 oz. ribeye with two jum-bo shrimp.

Anderson addressed the challenges of stocking the freezers and coolers: “Customer satisfaction is our ultimate goal. Price is a secondary consideration. It doesn’t matter what you pay for something if it’s not good.”

Responding to customer feedback, they switched food service companies to get a more consistently tender steak. To protect themselves from a shortage of 10-per-pound shrimp caused by the gulf oil spill, they took delivery of an inventory to carry them several months.

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Anderson confides the restaurant busi-ness is demanding. She said her personal reward is, “seeing families getting together, watching the bigger tables where everyone is smiling and laughing. Hearing somebody say, as they’re paying their bill, that they’ll see us again soon helps make up for the long hours.” •

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(406) 796-8250Edward & Lauren Anderson, Proprietors




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The Benefits of Eary Weaning: Extra carcass quality (up to 25% more Choice and Prime) when the calf is introduced to starchy feeds (corn) at an earlier age. Healthier than calves weaned at normal weaning.

What are the products and when should I use them? Impact Starter Complete (32S6) Impact Backgrounder (32MJ) Calves from

300 lb to 650 lb. Mix 25% with 75% corn. Accuration (3394) Calves of any size. Fed with

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So how do I “Early Wean”: Start calves on creep feed early. Calves that are aware that there is ‘food’ in the creep feeder can be ‘weaned’ any time that the markets or weather dictate.

We carry a complete line of partswith a quality service department

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versatile1-305 mfwd, front and Rear duals, Powershift, front weights1-450 4wd, 800 metric duals, powershift, pto, auto-steer1-485 4wd, 800 metrics, powershift1-375, 4wd, 710 metrics, powershift, pto1-280 mfwd< duals, weights

MccorMick1-XTX145 mfwd, shuttle shift, 3 remotes1-mTX135 mfwd, shuttle shift, 3 remotes2-mTX120 mfwd, shuttle shift, 3 remotes1-X60.50 mfwd< powershift, loader, 3 remotes1-X10.40 mfwd, hydro, cab, loader, utility1-X10.40 mfwd, hydro, loader, utility

used tractors1-846 Versatile, 4wd, 18.4x42 duals, 90%, 3pt & PTO, 6000

Hrs, very nice $47,5001-TV145 Bi-di, Loaded Both Ends, 1950 Hrs, $82,500.001-NH Tm165, mfwd, loader, powershift, 6500 hrs, $55,0001-NH Tm165, mfwd, loader, powershift, 7800 hrs, $50,0001-NH Tm155, mfwd, loader, powershift, 3300 hrs, $74,0001-NH Tm155, mfwd, loader, powershift, 4000 hrs, $68,0001-NH TV140, Bidirectional, loader, loaded, 6200 hrs, $58,0001-white 2-105, dual 3000 loader $7,5001-Jd 2940, 205 dal loader & grapple, excellent $15,500

new haying2-macdon a30d 18’ hydroswing1-macdon a30d 16’ hydroswing

used haying1-macdon a30d 18’ Hydroswing, One Season1-Hesston 6600 Swather with 14’ Hay head, Cab & air, very

good machine $78001- Bf2330 Pushframe with 2300 series 16’ header TV140

hookup, new guards & sickles $95001- IH 8820 with 21’ draper, good shape, 1750 Hrs $18,5001-HB25 Honeybee draper Header with TV145 3pt hookup, has

built in trailer, very nice shape $12,5001-NH H8080 with 770Hd 18’ disc header forage Harvesting, air

axle, deluxe cab, 600 Hrs, rebuilt head $85,000

1-Gehl 1075 with 3 row 30” Head, extra pickup head, nice shape $14,500

6-NH1475 Hydroswings, 16’ & 18’ Heads, 2300 & HS heads1-NH H7150 Hydroswing, 18’ one season1-Bf2330 Pushframe with 18’ HS Head, TV145 hookup1-NH 166 Inverter, duals, Good Shape

new and used rakesSitrex wheel Rakes-all Sizes On Hand8-Sitrex wheel Rakes, all Sizes available6-H&S wheel Rakes, all Sizes

used Balers2-NH BR 7090, wide Pickup,endless Belts, 1000pto, 6000 Bales, Super Sharp, Your Choice, $22,750.002-NH BR 7090, Net wrap, wide Pickup, Endless belts, 1000pto, 3500-5100 Bales, Starting at $23,500.00 2-NH 688 Starting at $7,500.004 NH BR780 Starting at $8,000.004-NH BR780a Starting at $9,500.003-NH BR7090 Starting at $18,500.00

new and used grain augersand grain vacsWestfield Farm King, Harvest International,brand Grain augers all Sizes, Over 30 In StockNew Brandt and Rem Vacs On Hand2-Brandt 1545 LP Sp Conveyors - New Call for priceWestfield, Farmking, Brandt, Harvest International - All Sizes,

Call for End of Year PricesBrandt and Rem Vacs on Hand1-Batco 1545 fL, conveyor, self-propelled, 2012 model gas

engine, excellent shape $19,5001-Westfield mk13”x111”, low profile hopper, $18,5001- Harvest International 13”x92’ low profile, Hopper w/electric

mover $15,500 1-Westfield mk 13”x81’ hyd hopper mower $14,5001-Westfield mk13’x91’, like new $15,000

new and used grain carts and farMing New J&M and Killbros Grain Carts Coming In Daily - Call For

Pricing and OptionsSeveral to Choose fromJ&m, Killbros and Unverferth - All Sizes Available1-J&m 750, Tarp $16,800.00

1-J&m 1326 with dual, tarp and scale1-J&m 1051 with 22” auger, 900 metrics tarp and scale1-Unverferth 1315 X-treme with duals, tarp and scale1-Jd 9350 disk drill 30’ with fertilizer and small seed attach-

ments, wrap around hitch $35001-JD 1950 air seeder, 42’, 7.5” spacing, 787 TBT cart field ready

$46,5001-SdX 40 Case IH air seeder, 40’, 7.5” spacing, 3430 TBH cart,

3 compartments, excellent $135,0001-Jd 7200 corn planter, 12 row 22”, liquid fertilizer with tank, row

cleaners, no-till ready, excellent shape $16,5001-Parker 710 gran cart, tarp, no scale $16,5001-Brent 8800 gran cart, scale & tarp, hyd spout $27,500

other equipMentmeyers manure Spreaders - On HandLandoll Icon 1632 Pull Type GradersLandoll disks and Tillage Equipment Great Plains drills mdS attachmentsKoyker Loaders Sioux Grain Bins and Livestock EquipmentSturde Livestock EquipmentBesler Bale BedsLoad-max TrailersSteel and wood fencing material on HandSupersteel windbreak 16’ and 24’ on hand Twine and Net wrap

hay processors / feed wagons4-Haybuster 26503-Haybuster 26551-Haybuster H1130 Hay Grinderfeedwagons, mixersNew Sioux automation Stndard and Verticle mixers1-2650 with hyd. deflector, excellent shape $12,750

new and used harrows1-Summers 70’ Superharrow - new2-degelman 70’ Harrows, with or without Hydangle - new1-Summers 70’ Superharrow Plus, with new teeth $22,500

Call Us For All Your New & Used Equipment Isabel 605-466-2119 • Mobridge 605-845-5400Monte Lindskov 605-848-1066 • Phalan Schilling 605-848-1344

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• Electrical• A large irrigation parts inventory

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Family owned & operated with very affordable prices!

601 S. Ohlman St. Mitchell, SD

605-990-5333

13320 Fall River Rd. Hot Springs, SD

605-745-8333

BEST BUILT, BEST ENGINEERED, BEST WARRANTY

3/10 WARRANTY

DELIVERY AVAILABLE!

Jeff & Janell [email protected] • www.goldiesautosales.com

Toll Free: 877-990-8333

2013 Sooner Gooseneck Livestock Trailer

7’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments ................................... $16,7957’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ................. $17,5757’ x 28’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ................. $20,8757’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ................. $20,9757.6’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments, 56” Escape/ 4

Wheeler Door, 17.5 Wheels, 16 Ply Tires, Vents Under GooseneckTandem 8k Axles ........................................................ $22,575Triple 8k Axles ........................................................... $24,975

2013 Exiss Gooseneck Livestock Trailer

7’ x 20’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments ..................... $13,6757’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments ................................... $14,9757’ x 24’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments ..................... $15,2757’ x 24’ 2 Gates, 3 Compartments ................................. $15,2757’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ................. $15,975

Cargo Trailers

Standard Features 5’, 6’ & 7’ Wide Models • Radius Front/Round Top with TOP Cap (Black, White or Red) • .080 Aluminum Top Wrap • One-Piece Aluminum Roof • .030 Prefi nished Aluminum Exterior • 24” ATP Stoneguard • Pass- Thru Style Side Door w/Flush Lock & Dead Bolts (6’& 7’ wide models only) • 12v Dome Lights (2) with Wall Switch • LED Oval Tail Lights • 16” OC Vertical Posts • 24” OC Roof Bows • 24” OC Floor Crossmembers • Fold-Down Rear Stabilizer Jacks • Entire Chassis Undercoated • Spring Suspension (4” Drop) W/ E-Z Lube Hubs • Breakaway Kit (Tandem models only) • 15” Radial Tires with White Spoke Wheels • Smooth Aluminum Fenders: Jeep Style (Single Axle) Flare Style (Tandem Axles) • Sidewall Liner: 5.2 mm Lauan (single Axle) 3/8” Plywood (Tandem Axles) • 3/4” Plywood Decking (Exterior Moisture Barrier Applied) • SureWire: Improved wire connections & secure routing • 3-Year Limited Warranty

4’x6’ .......................................................... $2,4755’x8’ .......................................................... $2,9756’x10’ ........................................................ $3,4756’x12’ ........................................................ $3,9756’x14’ ........................................................ $4,2757’x16’ ........................................................ $5,795

• 6’ Long V-Nose • Front and Rear Ramp Doors with Spring Assist & Bar Lock • Ski Guide • Beavertail (18’& 20’ models:32”, All other models: 48”) • 32”W Side Door with Flush Lock & Dead Bolt • Fold Out Steel Step (8.5’ wide models only) • 12v Dome Light (1) • 3-Piece A-Frame • 24” Starbright Stoneguard • Top Wind Tongue Jack (2000 lb) with Sand Pad • Safety Chains & Breakaway Kit • Spring Axles • Electric Drum Brakes • Aluminum Fenders (7’ wide model only) • Radial Tires & White Spoke Wheels • One-Piece Aluminum Roof • .030 Prefi nished Aluminum Exterior Skiing • LED Tail Lights and Clearance Lights • 24” OC Floor Crossmembers • 16” OC Vertical Hat Posts and Hat Section Roof Bows • 3.6mm Lauan Interior Sidewall Liner • 2”x6” Tube Frame • 7-Way 12v End Connector • 1000 lb. Recessed Floor Mounted Tie-Downs • SureWire 12v Wiring Method • 3 Year Limited Warranty7’x24’ ........................................................ $8,475

• Tubular Steel Main Rails • Skid Pads • 16” OC Full-Height Floor Crossmembers • Recessed 5000lb. D-Rings With Backing Plate (4) • 3/4” Plywood Floor with Moisture Barrier Applied • Torfl ex Rubber Torsion Wide Track Axles • EZ Lube Hubs • Radial Tires • Electric Brakes with Breakaway Kit • Polished Aluminum Corner Castings (Front & Rear) • One- Piece Seamless Aluminum Roof • .030 Prefi nished Aluminum Skiing (8standard colors) • 96” W Rear Ramp Door • 16” Plywood Ramp Extension • 36”W Pass-Thru Side Entry Door with Flush Lock & Dead Bolt8.5’x20’ .................................................... $6,6758.5’x24’ .................................................... $6,975

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AREAS LARGEST SELECTION OF TRAILERS - FINANCING AVAILABLE

Haulmark means more trailer for your money. More features to make

your hauling and travel easier. More built into a great trailer.

THIS IS WHY WE’RE #1 IN THE NATION!

Whether you’re interested in a utility trailer, cargo trailer, car hauler, auto trailer,

race trailer, motorcycle trailer, an FVT or RVT Adventure trailer, or one of our

specialty trailers, you will not fi nd a better built with better quality and better backed trailer than a Haulmark. You just found the best answer for transporting your cargo.

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Half Circle Calving Station

10’ wide x 8’ long half circle calving station, heavy duty one piece construction, self catch head gate, split gates both sides for full access, 5’ swing gate at rear, removable posts at rear allow for locking of crowd gates enabling use for basic chuteSpecial $3,375

2012 Arrow Farmquip Hydraulic

Squeeze Chute

Deluxe Hydraulic Squeeze Chute with Vet Cage, Unique cradle design squeeze, Independent top and bottom body squeeze, Wide vet door access both sides, Side exit and bottom door access both sides, full opening front and rear head gates -30” clearance, Hydraulic head sweep neck bender, NEW Hydraulic lift jacks for simple and fast chute transportation.

Special $18,225

2012 Arrow Farmquip Portable Tub, Alley, Chute

Deluxe Portable 16’ X-fl ow Tub, Alley & Quick -Catch Squeeze Chute, Includes Q-Catch squeeze chute with full parallel squeeze, Adjust rear control on head gate, Anti-backing system, Offside alley adjustment standard, Rolling door at each end of alley, Adjustable rear control on head gate, Manual head sweep, Weigh scale ready, Adjustable alley 17” - 30”

Special $11,775

2012 Arrow Farmquip 300 Quick-Catch

Portable Chute

300 Series Deluxe Portable Q-Catch Vet Squeeze Chute, Heavy duty rolling door at rear, Adjustable neck extenders, Double side exit, Full parallel squeeze, Anti backing system, Low noise rump fi ngers, Rubber neck yokes, Brisket door, Adjustable rear control on head gate, 3 removable inspection gates on both sides

Special $7,700

2012 Arrow Farmquip Self Catch Squeeze

Chute

Deluxe Self Catch Vet Squeeze Chute, Heavy duty self-catch head gate, Heavy duty rolling door at rear, Low noise rump fi ngers, Integral vet cage, 3 removable inspection gates each side, Full parallel squeeze, Formed 10 gauge checker plate fl oor, Double side exit

Special $5,275

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Goldies Auto & Tailer Sales is the #1 Sooner and

Exiss Dealer in the Nation! We have sold twice as many

aluminum trailers in South Dakota then any

other manufacturer. Sooner & Exiss is the

#1 selling aluminum trailer in South Dakota! - All New Sooner & Exiss Trailers Come With Rear Gate Slam Latch -

Best Built, Best engineered, Best warrantyawarded the #1 sooner and exiss dealer in the nation!

Half CircleCalving Station

2013 Arrow Farmquip Hydraulic Squeeze Chute


2013 Arrow Farmquip 300 Quick-Catch Portable Chute

2013 Arrow Farmquip Self Catch Squeeze Chute



605-990-5333


605-745-8333


3/10 WARRANTY

DELIVERY AVAILABLE!


Toll Free: 877-990-8333






Cargo Trailers


4’x6’ .......................................................... $2,4755’x8’ .......................................................... $2,9756’x10’ ........................................................ $3,4756’x12’ ........................................................ $3,9756’x14’ ........................................................ $4,2757’x16’ ........................................................ $5,795















Squeeze Chute


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$12,175

2013 EXISS 74104 HORSE

Special Price $37,775Stock #59355

Slant With Full Living Quarters, Walk Through Door From Living

Quarters To Horse Area, Stall Divid-ers With Stud Gate On Front Divider.

Aluminum Wheels, Hay Rack, 6 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator, , Bathroom

Features 24” X 36” Shower With Glass Door, Plastic Foot Flush Toilet, Water Heater, 16, 000 Btu Ducted Furnace, A/C 13,500 Btu Lifetime Rubber Floor Mat In Horse Area, 3 Year Hitch To Bumper Limited War-ranty & 10 Year Structural Warranty We Deliver With In A 1000 Mile Area

2013 EXISS 74004 HORSE CUSTOM


13, 500 Btu Air Conditioner With Heat Strip, 6’ Short Wall, Carpeted Dressing Room, Camper Door With Sliding Window And Screen Door, Boot Box, Life Time Rubber Floor

Mat In Horse Area, Slant Stall Dividers With Pads, Fold Up Rear Tack, 4 Horse Removable Saddle Rack, Street Drop Feed Windows

With Drop Down Bars, Side Access Door, 16” Aluminum Wheels, 3

Year Limited / 10 Year Structural Warranty!

2014 Sooner 8413 Living Quarters 4 Horse SlantSpecial Price $77,775

Stock #59223With Full Living Quarters, 12’ 6” Short

Wall , 10’ Slide Out, Mangers With Breast Pads And Storage Area Below,

Walk Through Door From Living Quarters To Horse Area, Hay Rack With Ladder

Kitchen Features , 6 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator, Bathroom Features 24” X 36” Shower With Glass Door, White Porcelain Foot Flush Toilet, Water Heater, 16, 000

Btu Ducted Furnace, A/C 13,500 Btu, Lifetime Rubber Floor Mat In Horse Area

3 Year Hitch To Bumper Limited War-ranty & 10 Year Structural Warranty We

Deliver With In A 1000 Mile Area

2013 Exiss 7410 4 Horse with Slide Out


With Full Living Quarters With 6’ Slide Out, 10’ 6” Short Wall ,Walk Through Door From Living Quarters To Horse

Area, Stall Dividers With Stud Gate On Front Divider. Aluminum Wheels, Hay

Rack, 6 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator, Bathroom Features 24” X 36” Shower With Glass Door, Plastic Foot Flush Toilet, Water Heater, 16, 000 Btu Ducted Furnace,

A/C 13,500 Btu, Lifetime Rubber Floor Mat In Horse Area, 3 Year Hitch To Bumper Limited Warranty & 10 Year

Structural Warranty We Deliver With In A 1000 Mile Area

2014 Exiss 7x26Stock Combo


Silver Sheeting With Stainless Steel Nose. Slant Wall And One Center Gate; 5’6” Short Wall

Dressing Room And 4’ Mid Tack. Blanket Bar, Brush Tray, Halter

Hook Bars, 4 Place Saddle Rack, 13,500 BTU A.C. unit with heat tape in dressing Area, Carpet In Gooseneck, Hay Rack, Lifetime

Rubber Floor Mats, 3 Roof Vents In Stock Area (3 Year Hitch-To-

Bumper/10 Year Structural Warranty) We Deliver!

HORSE TRAILERS

2013 sooner goosenecklivestock trailer

7’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments .......................... $16,6457’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ........... $17,4257’ x 28’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ........... $20,8757’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ........... $20,9757.6’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments, 56” Escape/ 4Wheeler Door, 17.5 Wheels, 16 Ply Tires, Vents Under GooseneckTandem 8k Axles ............................................. $22,575Triple 8k Axles .................................................. $24,975



605-990-5333


605-745-8333


3/10 WARRANTY

DELIVERY AVAILABLE!


Toll Free: 877-990-8333






Cargo Trailers


4’x6’ .......................................................... $2,4755’x8’ .......................................................... $2,9756’x10’ ........................................................ $3,4756’x12’ ........................................................ $3,9756’x14’ ........................................................ $4,2757’x16’ ........................................................ $5,795















Squeeze Chute


Special $18,225



Special $11,775


Portable Chute


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Chute


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2013 exiss goosenecklivestock trailer

7’ x 20’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments ......................$13,6757’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments ....................................$14,8257’ x 24’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments ......................$15,1257’ x 24’ 2 Gates, 3 Compartments ..................................$15,1257’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ..................$15,575

- All New Sooner & Exiss Trailers Come With Rear Gate Slam Latch -

601 S. Ohlman St, Mitchell, SD Phone: 605-990-5333 / 13320 Fall River Rd, Hot Springs, SD Phone: 605-745-8333

BEST WARRANTY IN THE INDUSTRY 3 YEAR BASIC WARRANTY

& 10 YEAR LIMITED TRANSFERABLE WARRANTY

Jeff & Janell Goldammer [email protected]

Free: 877-990-8333 Cell: 605-770-1331

www.goldiesautosales.com

2013 Sooner Gooseneck Livestock Trailer 2013 Exiss Gooseneck Livestock Trailer 2013 Exiss Stock Combo Trailer

7’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments ...…………………....……... $16,7957’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ……………….. $17,575 7’ x 28’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ……………..... $20,875 7’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ……………….. $20,975 7.6’ x 30’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments, 56” Escape/ 4 Wheeler Door, 17.5 Wheels, 16 Ply Tires, Vents Under Gooseneck, Tandem Axle ……………………………………………………... $22,575 Triple Axle ………………………………………………….…….. $24,975

7’ x 20’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments ……………….….. $13,6757’ x 24’ 1 Gate, 2 Compartments ……………………….…….. $14,975 7’ x 24’ 1 Gate w/Slider, 2 Compartments …………….…...... $15,275 7’ x 24’ 2 Gates, 3 Compartments ……………………………..$15,275 7’ x 24’ 2 Gates w/Sliders, 3 Compartments ……………….. $15,975

6ft dressing area with 4ft mid tack and 16ft stock area, Stainless steel chrome nose with black side sheets, Front dressing area with carpet, Camper and screen door, (2) 18”x24” half slider windows in gooseneck, Tack area with 4 place saddle rack, Blanket Bar, Brush tray, Halter hook bar 7 x 16’ ……………………….………………….………..………… $13,975 7 x 20’ ………………….…….……………………………..…...… $16,475 7 x 24’ ………………………...………………….…..…..……...… $17,975 7 x 26’ (mid tack) (AC) ..…………………….………………..…. $24,775

2012 Arrow Farmquip Self Catch Squeeze Chute Deluxe Self Catch Vet Squeeze Chute, Heavy duty self-catch head

gate, Heavy duty rolling door at rear, Low noise rump fingers, Integral vet cage, 3 removable inspection gates each side, Full parallel

squeeze, Formed 10 gauge checker plate floor, Double side exit Special $5,275

2012 Arrow Farmquip Portable Tub, Alley, Chute Deluxe Portable 16' X-flow Tub, Alley & Quick -Catch Squeeze

Chute, Includes Q-Catch squeeze chute with full parallel squeeze, Adjust rear control on head gate, Anti-backing system, Offside alley adjustment standard, Rolling door at each end of alley, Adjustable

rear control on head gate, Manual head sweep, Weigh scale ready, Adjustable alley 17" - 30"

Special $11,775

2012 Arrow Farmquip 300 Quick-Catch Portable Chute 300 Series Deluxe Portable Q-Catch Vet Squeeze Chute, Heavy duty rolling door at rear, Adjustable neck extenders, Double side exit, Full

parallel squeeze, Anti backing system, Low noise rump fingers, Rubber neck yokes, Brisket door, Adjustable rear control on head

gate, 3 removable inspection gates on both sides Special $7,700

2012 Arrow Farmquip Hydraulic Squeeze Chute Deluxe Hydraulic Squeeze Chute with Vet Cage, Unique cradle

design squeeze, Independent top and bottom body squeeze, Wide vet door access both sides, Side exit and bottom door access both

sides, full opening front and rear head gates -30" clearance, Hydraulic head sweep neck bender, NEW Hydraulic lift jacks for

simple and fast chute transportation. Special $18,225

2012 Arrow Farmquip Calving Pen 10ft wide X 8ft long, Half Circle Calving Station, Heavy duty 1

piece construction, Self Catch head gate, Split gates both sides for full access, 5ft swing gate at rear, Removable posts at rear allow for locking of crowd gates enabling use for basic chute

Special $3,375

"To provide safe and efficient livestock handling systems for the livestock

producer that are easy to use, innovative, quality and economical"

2013 exiss stock Combo trailer

7 x 16’ …...……………….…….….………..………… $13,9757 x 20’…………....……………….……………..…...… $16,4757 x 24’ …………...………….……….…..…..……...… $17,9757 x 26’ (mid tack) (AC) ………….…..…..……...… $24,775



605-990-5333


605-745-8333


3/10 WARRANTY

DELIVERY AVAILABLE!


Toll Free: 877-990-8333






Cargo Trailers


4’x6’ .......................................................... $2,4755’x8’ .......................................................... $2,9756’x10’ ........................................................ $3,4756’x12’ ........................................................ $3,9756’x14’ ........................................................ $4,2757’x16’ ........................................................ $5,795















Squeeze Chute


Special $18,225



Special $11,775


Portable Chute


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SD #1 SellingAluminum

Stock Trailer

AreAs LArgest seLection of trAiLers • We DeLiver • finAncing AvAiLAbLe


Gary Johnson strives for perfection in silver work.By holly thomaS

Never quitesatisfied


One summer evening with a little bit of down time in the early 1980s, Gary Johnson sat in an

old, converted chicken coop-turned-bunk-house on a ranch outside of Ekalaka, MT, experimenting with steel and silver. Be-tween cowboying and ranch jobs, he had plenty of work to do but not a lot of money to work with, plus he had a family to feed and was in need of a new set of spurs. So, with a few free hours one evening in a dim-ly lit bunkhouse, Gary tested out his metal working skills and, after many hours and a lot of elbow grease, he finished his first set of spurs. After a few more ‘free’ evenings, he had more spurs to sell and his wallet started to fill. Almost 30 years later in a well-lit shop on his ranch near Douglas, WY, Gary sits at his shop bench with a col-lection of tools he’s accumulated over the years, a list of custom silver orders to fill, a grown family, and peace of mind. He still works ranch jobs and even runs his own cattle but when the snow blows outside or the daylight starts to dwindle, he is content to work inside on a set of silver engraved earrings and heat colored spurs with cop-per and silver overlays to show at the Sheri-dan Silver and Engraving Show.

The road that led Gary Johnson from a bunkhouse in Montana to a world renowned silver show in Wyoming was, he describes, “out of necessity,” using “crude and simple materials.” The hobby served its purpose


by helping his family get through tough times and also outfitting himself and his friends with good quality bits and spurs. But as time passed and Gary’s family grew, the need for more metal and silverwork increased. Gary’s son, Chet, began riding broncs and his son soon found himself in need of a good pair of bronc spurs. After one pair of spurs was finished, however, it seemed Chet’s fellow bronc riders were in need as well, and because rodeo is such a mobile sport, Gary soon found himself crafting spurs for riders as far East as

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“Last one [spade bit] I built went to Idaho to a guy I know. Seems like it took me forever. There are so many things to do to get them balanced,” said Gary. Be-cause of the complicated nature of differ-ent mouthpieces, Gary experimented with his bits on his own horses first. “When I used them [bits], I would find something I didn’t like and tried not to do that again.” The challenge to keep improving at his trade kept Gary’s interest through the years and has pushed him to continually make a better product.

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Always wanting to improve, Gary ad-mires the work of other artists he’s seen from a variety of shows saying, “I wish I had that artistic ability ... I’ve got a long way to go.” Over the years Gary has been fortu-nate enough to learn from other silverwork-ers such as Harold Crocker and Chuck Bell from Sheridan, WY. He also really enjoys engraving and plans to take some classes in that area, as well. Gary said, “My welding has improved a lot, and that’s from prac-tice and more prac-tice.” But as many will tell you, Gary is more talented than he lets on. Gary’s wife, Susan said, “He’s a very humble and very talented man.”

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“2010 was my first year back teaching after a 25-year hiatus into the cattle ranching world,” began Jim with a laugh. “When I came back, I talked to the lady that owns the property right across the street from the school about this idea, and we made a deal for the school to lease the place for a farm. It’s gone so well that we are now in the process of buying those two acres from her, and I’m told it may very well be the first outdoor classroom in Wyoming for elementary through high school age students.”

Upon securing the lease, Jim and several of his students got right to work building a couple barns, converting an old conces-sion stand into a chicken house, and building corrals.

“One challenge we have is being limited in size, which is prob-ably a good thing – I’m not looking for another full-time ranching

job to go with teaching. When we were designing the corrals, I had to remind these two ranch boys helping me that we would maybe be working with eight-10 head at most. They both came from larger operations, and were struggling to get a 200-head set of corrals de-signed on part of two acres. The idea was to have a workable setup for our needs as we built and designed everything, which was a great learning experience for all the students involved,” noted Jim of the lessons that started right at the beginning.

Today the farm houses around 40 chickens, eight Boer doe goats and 17 kids, and one bull owned by the FFA chapter that will be shown and hopefully sold at the Black Hills Stock Show next year. Various other animals come and go, with students often bringing in

ince 2010, northeastern Wyoming’s Hulett school system has had the unique opportunity to learn and benefit from their own personal school farm. Implemented by Vocational Ag Teacher and FFA Advisor Jim Pannell, the two-

acre farm has fast become an integral part of his teaching curriculum in addition to providing hands-on experience with animals to local children of all ages.

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while the hulett school farm does have facilities to house larger livestock, their primary full-time residents are boer goats. voAg teacher and ffA Adviser Jim pannell explained that most things in goats work about the same as in cattle, just in smaller proportions, which also means the goats aren't very likely to get students down and cause injuries during a hands-on lesson.

the purpose of the hulett school farm is to allow for hands-on learning, and it has excelled in its purpose. Shown are students weighing and vaccinating a goat. located just across the street from the school, the farm is easily accessible by all grades, who regularly stop by to watch baby animals being born, help care for the animals, or to watch a demonstration that includes animals owned by students.

hulett high school students wray and hannah work on the hulett school farm's chicken pens, which house roughly 40 chickens today.


horses for demonstrations, and ranchers providing livestock to go along with what is being covered in class.

“The idea is that you can sit and talk about something forever – preg testing, vaccinating, you name it. I tell my kids that I can stand there all day telling them how to do something, but they’ll never know how to do it until they actually give it a try. It’s a whole different way of learning now that we can walk across the street and show them how to do it physically,” Jim explained.

Just recently, he was covering vaccina-tions and inoculations in class, and it coin-cided with five of the goats needing boost-ers. Jim had students take turns catching and injecting the goats, and they all learned how to actually give a shot.

“That’s also one of the good things about goats – everything in them is about the same as cattle, except they eat a lot less feed and are much easier to handle. You probably don’t have to worry about an old doe getting a kid down and hurting him,” said Jim.

For more species-specific topics, Jim said the local ranching community has been wonderful to work with, and read-ily supplies livestock whenever they are needed.

“We have some the best neighbors and support group in our local ranching com-munity. They supply livestock whenever we ask, or whenever they have something we might learn from. They also always keep us in supply with hay, even on years like this when that’s a pretty big deal,” noted Jim.

When it comes to daily care, students of all ages pitch in and help. Two elemen-tary students typically get out of part of their first period to gather eggs and care for the chickens in the mornings, and the FFA students pitch in on evenings and some weekends.

“Certain classes have certain duties. On the weekends either myself or the In-dustrial Arts teacher generally take care of things, but we also have a couple guys in FFA that are happy to come by if no one else has time. It’s kind of a big deal to the kids, and they don’t consider it work. There are some that would happily spend all day

out there, cleaning pens or whatever else needs done,” Jim explained.

Another big deal is witnessing an ani-mal birth, something a surprising number of elementary students in relatively rural ortheastern Wyoming hadn’t seen prior to the introduction of the school farm.

“It’s a really neat deal for the elemen-tary students too, and they utilize it quite a bit for a variety of things throughout the school year,” said Jim of the positive im-pact the farm has had students of all ages.

Going forward, Jim hopes to con-tinue expanding what topics he provides hands-on instruction in, listing preg test-ing near the top of that list, and also in-creasing the number of students who uti-lize the facilities to house their personal animal projects.

They held their first market goat pros-pect sale on May 5. “That has been another great educational thing for the kids – they are learning how to make sale brochures

and run a sale firsthand as we go through the process,” noted Jim.

He added that the success seen with the farm would never have been pos-sible without such a strong backing and support system in the community and school administration.

“The school board and principal are all great. This is the second principal we’ve had since I’ve been here. The first was from ranching country, and the lady we have now grew up on a sheep ranch down by Upton, and is over at our farm regularly. The school board includes a lot of local ranchers, and the whole group couldn’t be more supportive of our efforts,” concluded Jim of the cooperative attitude that has re-sulted in such a successful means of teach-ing students a practical, hands-on agricul-ture curriculum at any age. •

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of being active and discussing their culture with the rest of society. I ask people to give one hour a week advocating for our culture,” began Bruce Vincent of what started Pro-vider Pals – the cultural exchange program that links urban and rural classrooms with the people who get their hands dirty to provide the ba-sics of everyday life.

Several years ago, Bruce was doing his hour in a small Montana school, talking about being a logger. As he left, the teach-er commented how well his presentation would tie into their activity of adopting a wolf the following day.

“I had 200 miles of windshield time driving home to ponder all the things that came with the wolf they adopted and named Alfred. Politics came with Alfred, and the message that ranching was bad for Alfred, logging was bad for Alfred, and more of what I call charismatic megaphones: the desire to dehumanize or vilify rural areas by humanizing nature. They have Flipper the Dolphin, and Babe the pig, and Dis-ney – what do we have? The only thing I could come up with was us, as people,” explained Bruce.

He called the teacher back, said great about the wolf, but would she be interested in adopting a logger? She agreed to let her

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class adopt and track Bruce as a logger for a year. Following his final classroom visit on Earth Day, she said it went so well that she would like to adopt someone else, and did he know a farmer, rancher or miner that would be willing to do the same thing?

“That’s where Provider Pals started. The next stop was Washington D.C., where I was testifying on a timber issue. Afterward, I was frustrated and walking Pennsylva-nia Avenue, and found a school. I went in and asked the principal if he would like to adopt a logger – he looked at me and said, ‘a lawyer?’ I said, ‘no, the guy who made your desks,’ and we’ve been in D.C. for over 10 years now,” said Bruce, adding some 1,500 D.C. students are involved in the program annually, most of them located right on Capitol Hill.

Today, Provider Pals adopts out farmers, ranchers, miners and loggers into class-rooms in New York, Los Angeles, San Di-ego, Minneapolis and numerous other cities and small towns across America, with great response and learning from both sides.

“It will blow your mind what the kids don’t know – things we take for granted,” said Molt, Montana farmer and rancher Jus-tin Downs, who along with his wife Angie, has been involved in Provider Pals for more than a decade, traveling to Little Rock, Arkansas, New York City, Anaheim, Cali-fornia, and around Montana to share his story and meet with classrooms that have adopted him and Angie.

“I take wheat, barley, corn and a host of other seeds with me when I meet with kids, and I let them touch it, eat and chew on the wheat until it becomes gum. Then I ask them what it is, and the most common an-swer I get is birdseed. Ninety-nine percent of the time they have no clue what any of the grains are. You start talking about what we make out of wheat; from bread to pasta to cereal, and pretty soon they’re asking if that means pizza too. A lot them have never been outside their city, and their world is a little bubble. It’s a great experience ex-panding that bubble,” added Justin.

In addition to adults, Bruce explained that providing the opportunity for kids of similar ages, and different backgrounds, to

wyoming coal miner matt Young meeting with washington d.c. students through provider pals.

Adoptees have been asked about everything from hunting to wolves to if they are racist. provider pals founder bruce vincent said those involved strive to answer all questions in a non-political, educationally oriented way.

montana farmer and rancher Justin downs shows new York students what various grain seeds look like while visiting their classrooms. provider pals founder bruce vincent noted that when meeting with kids the education goes both ways, and is really more of a cultural exchange.


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“The first time we brought a kid with us to Washington D.C., we had the auditorium of the school we were visiting full, and we had asked the kid to prepare a slideshow of his home and family. Slide one was mom and dad, slide two was something he had just killed, tongue hanging out, the whole works. That lost half the audience, right on slide number two. But, it allowed him to communicate why we hunt, and it landed completely differently than if an adult had said something because he was their peer.

“Another time, a kid in the audience stood up and asked if we were racist. This school we were at was 80 to 90 percent minorities, and we had all white kids from the rural west. A boy named Charlie stood and replied that no we weren’t, and why did he ask. The kid pointed out that we hadn’t brought any black students with us, and Charlie replied, ‘we would have brought them if we had them!’” continued Bruce of the real interactions that occur during vis-its to schools.

Montana ranchers Scott and Kathy Wiley agree that providing rural and urban kids the chance to interact has been one

(below) kathy, mandy and Scott wiley on their montana ranch. the wiley’s have been actively educating youth from

across America through provider pals for about 10 years. Scott said that it is fun interacting with the kids, showing them how he lives, and learning about how they live too.

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“Those kids could relate to her, and vice versa. It was very well worth the time and a great experience for both sides,” noted Scott.

In addition to adopting out producers and industry folks, Provider Pals also hosts a camp each summer that brings rural and urban kids together in Montana. During the week-long experience, the kids interact and make friends. They also spend multi-ple half-days learning about a topic such as ranching, followed by a half-day field trip to a nearby ranch.

“We also have continuing education courses that teachers can take for three credit hours by attending the camp,” noted Bruce. “It is all hosted at an old Forest Ser-vice Station that was being taken over by rats way out in the country. We turned it into a natural resource learning camp, and received the inaugural Preserve American Presidential Award for our efforts.”

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and lives near Laurel. After a stint working for the Northern Ag Network as well as serving as the front man for several cattle producer organizations, Lockie decided he wanted to travel less and stay closer to home with his son Keon, 11, daughter Brynn, 8, and wife Jana. The man who claims “welding, ranching and talking” as his skills, remains, along with his family, in the production ag sector with a few cows and some irrigated hay land on their acreage.


In addition to his day job where he specializes in the pasture and livestock insurance products of RMA, Lockie takes care of his cattle and also spends countless evenings and weekends creating and building iron artwork.

“We’d always done our own labor on the ranch, welding and fix-ing things on our own. I’d always been the welder of the bunch,” he said. “Dad is a saddle maker and boot maker, he does all kinds of custom leatherwork for people and he was always very artistic – he builds some beautiful stuff,” said John who believes his dad’s cre-ative side was passed down to him. “I’ve been able to start build-ing artwork from scratch – ranch signs, business signs, lamps, light fixtures, furniture.” The list is long and diverse, he said.

Twelve years ago, two years after he was married, Lockie and his father-in-law, Vic Donovan, together invested in a plasma torch. “I’m Scotch by nature and by heritage so I didn’t want to spend all the money by myself,” laughed Lockie. “I’ve used the

heck out of it. He hasn’t used it as much as me.” Lockie said he had an idea that he wanted to do iron work and knew he had some ability to draw but other than that he was stepping out on a limb without much experience but plenty of ranch kid knowl-edge and willingness to work.

“I built my very first sign for my Dad’s saddle shop. It’s still hanging in Jordan. Someone saw it and liked it so I got an order for a ranch sign as a Christmas gift, someone saw that and it just took off from there,” Lockie said.

The artist’s work can be seen in Califor-nia, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan-sas, Canada, and maybe more locations. In addition he has built sofa tables, barstools, coffee tables and more. “The business just keeps expanding,” he said. “I built a sign for my brother and sister-in-law in Canada and their neighbors saw it and pretty soon I was building pieces for our friends to the North.”

Lockie said that he has designed many ranch signs and other pieces of art-work from just a few basic instructions or ideas. “Some people just say, these are our brands, you figure it out, or we want a sheep and a Hereford bull, otherwise you figure it out. Those are kind of fun because I get to be creative, but there can be a lot of hours that go into the project before I ever even touch a piece of metal. None of my pieces are scanned and cutout by a computer, I think that is what makes them a little more special than some of the ‘cookie cutter-type

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Using his imagination to make a piece unique and special for each customer is one of Lockie’s favorite aspects of the trade. “One family might raise cattle and horses but they tell me that their bucking horses are really the heart of their business, so I design something with that in mind.” And his pieces aren’t all horses and cows. “I’ve got one hanging in Oregon that has seagulls and killer whales on it, I didn’t think I’d do a lot of seagulls and killer whales but you never know. There is one in Helena with a magpie sitting on an anvil.”

Lockie said he has used photographs, he has googled images – there isn’t an idea that he won’t try. “I had some folks that wanted a sign with their stud horse wear-ing flowers like they win at the racetrack, I ended up building 140 jasmine flowers to go with the cutout of that specific stud horse,” said Lockie.

Another memorable piece was a lamp for a friend’s dad that included a cutout of the rancher horseback and his favorite dog, along with a cow that John added to the im-age. “I go back and forth with drawings and ideas until they get just what they want and then I start on it,” he said.

He enjoyed making two indoor pieces for some ranchers near Circle, MT, that each measured about 9 feet by 5 feet. “The fam-ily had built around part of the old house and done a lot of updates, they wanted to keep the family connection so we included a scene of them moving cattle with a storm cloud on the horizon, their old barn and then a nighttime scene with a chuckwagon

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and a herd of cattle bedded down on the other piece. Then after I built it in pieces, I loaded it up and hauled it 250 miles to their place and installed it. There have been a lot of good times,” he laughed.

Mentioning again his Scottish heritage and tendencies, Lock-ie said he has built himself a hydraulic press that he used to build 120 feet of personalized deck railings. “It wasn’t cutout, it was all forged iron – you get the iron red hot and then change the shape into what you want it to look like.” That project added yet another dimension to the pieces he had done in the past, as he fashioned each picket individually.

Lockie enjoyed the annual convention of the Artist and Black-smith Association of North America in Rapid City, SD, during the summer of 2012. “It is a heck of a hobby, in the 100-degree heat, on newly re-tarred asphalt and you are standing by a 2,000 degree forge,” he laughed, adding that he wondered for a moment why he chose iron work as his second profession.

But he learned some new ideas about the trade, such as tech-niques for making curves more pleasing to the eye, and also chatted with some of the more experienced blacksmiths about

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That concern may become less worrisome, though, as his kids are learning the trade and helping him in the shop more regular-ly. “Keon has built some smaller stuff, he even sold some hooks he made at a show. He thought that was pretty cool. This is like everything in agriculture, it can be dangerous if you aren’t care-ful, but he has learned to be very cautious and of course I over-see everything he does.” Keon has also built gifts for his school teachers, Lockie said, and Brynn helps him keep track of things when he has several projects going at once. “It’s nice to have the kids involved. That is how I was raised, you were involved whether you were moving cattle or sheep or helping dad in the saddle shop. I want that for my kids so they can learn a work ethic and can apply the concept of compensation for hard work.”

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3. Have a unique product. You can make a living at this kind of work but there are a lot of people out there doing what you want to do. “Theirs may be cheaper but my work is custom. I think that gives me a niche.”

“It would be nice to do this full-time,” said Lockie. “Obviously, the most important thing in my life is fam-ily. Everything else you have going on in your life is second; your family is your most important responsibil-ity. I hope to build my artwork into something bigger but I always have in the back of my mind the old adage of a starving artist; you don’t want to do that when you’ve got a family,” he said. •

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Joe painter and his family have utilized the branding crew for over twenty years. Joe’s father paul instigated the organization of the very first one over two decades ago.


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“I’d line up all the brandings and get the times ready for everyone. Then I’d line up the crew and drive them there,” said Gress. The Ludlow, SD, ranch kid said that local students from seventh grade on up to seniors – and a few who are out of high school and home from college for the summer – travel to ranches in an ap-proximately 60 mile radius around Buffalo, SD, to provide labor for local ranchers on branding day. “Most of the time we prob-ably average about 200-300 head of calves per day but we’ve done as many as 800 in a day,” said Gress who explained that they usually wrestle the calves in a pen. Gress added that he tried to get “bigger kids” for the ranches that he knew would have bigger calves.

Gress said the circle the crew travels seems to get bigger every year. The kids attend brandings into North Dakota where most of the operations are “rope and drag.”

“We go to brandings any day, not just weekends,” said Gress who added that the school track coach gets a little frustrated when he takes the track kids to a branding.

He said that they usually ask for $50 a day for around 200 head of calves and will raise the price a bit for bigger num-bers. The high school crew expects a meal too. “We always wanted to have dinner but nobody ever complained about that,” Tate said. He explained that most ranchers pay each laborer individually but sometimes he would get one check and then divvy it up amongst the crew members.

The eldest of three children, Tate is learning life skills and a work ethic that would make many employers drool.

“Cole Stevenson ran it before me and he taught me a lot about it. He said to make sure you get there on time and to respect

people too. I learned about negotiating because some of the ranchers didn’t like the way we did things or they’d complain if we were already booked for the day they wanted.” Gress also said that he adver-tised the crew in the newspaper a couple of times which seemed to ramp up business. “About every night, I’d come home from school and listen to the answering machine and have to return calls and schedule a few more brandings.” He said his folks were pleased that he had taken the responsibil-ity to handle the crew for several years and knew that most of the brandings included a lot of fun along with the work.

“I have been around cows and calves my whole life. When I first started doing it I was a sixth grader and I was a little timid, those calves were a lot bigger than me but I knew that I couldn’t get hurt too bad.”

Gress added that finding a big enough crew has become an increasing challenge as kids become more busy with sports and other activities but he hopes Steven Koch, the newest crew boss will find success in securing enough students to continue the tradition.

“The crew has been a great help to us,” said Laurie Goehring, Buffalo, SD. “We have really appreciated them. They have

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“Those brandings used to get wild, I could tell you a lot of good stories about the crew back in those days,” she laughed, recalling the first bunch of local kids, led by Casey and Thad Olson, who helped her dad Paul Painter brand over 20 years ago. She and her husband Terry have also uti-lized the crew for many years.

Casey Olson’s memories of those first brandings are similar.

“Paul Painter approached my dad when I was a sophomore I suppose, and won-dered if he would mind if we came and branded at his place,” Olson recalled. “I guess that put me and my brother Thad, a freshman at the time, in charge of it.” Ol-son said Painter asked him to gather any other kids who would be willing to help, and this was the first time someone had put a crew of kids together that weren’t nec-

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“Paul Painter was one of the greatest guys I ever knew,” Olson shared that he was a ‘great cowboy’ with a ‘heck of a tem-per’ but someone with a great sense of hu-mor who always had time for everyone and almost always had a smile on his face.

“We had a little mix of everyone, ranch kids, town kids, everyone,” Olson said. “In those days even the town kids had usu-ally spent time helping a rancher lamb or calve or worked on a shearing crew, most of them were good hands.” Olson recalls that Tate Gress’s dad and uncle, Dustin and Darren Gress were two of his reliable crew members.

Olson said he and the rest of the crew members were paid for each branding, probably $20 or $25 per day. “A pretty good amount of money for having that much fun,” and he added that he enjoyed it so much that he would have done it for noth-ing. “That was a different community than home so I got to know a whole bunch of new people, some folks that were really good horse trainers who taught us a lot about horses and handling cattle, and that in it-self was really valuable,” said Olson.

Olson explained that Painters always provided horses for the crew to ride. “That first year most of us had a good old horse to ride. Painters always had pretty good saddle horses.”

But the next year Paul Painter decided he’d utilize the crew a little more, and had young colts ready for each crew member to ride. “The colts probably had about 30 days riding on them,” Olson recalled. He said that Joe Painter, Paul’s son, would use the colts for calving to put some miles on them but most of them hadn’t been roped on or been around tight quarters like a branding pen. “I learned a lot about horses from that experience,” Olson laughed, adding that he hadn’t roped very much until that point, but that he had roped and drug a lot of calves by his senior year.

“There were a lot of pretty good wrecks,” Olson remembers. “Of course being kids we were always playing tricks on each oth-

er, dragging the rope under a horse’s tail to try and get someone bucked off. Those horses were pretty bullet proof when we were done, they were tired and they’d been exposed to just about everything.”

Olson remembers one of his friends rid-ing a colt when the nervous horse bucked and the rider eventually bailed off. “That horse kicked out with both feet as he was falling and caught him right in the knees. We just dragged him over against the fence, threw some sacks of ice on his knees and went on with the branding,” Olson said. He recalled another time when a colt ran

away with Darren Gress, one of the crew members, and headed for a trailer with the door open. “Darren leaned ahead to try and get under it but the top of the trail-er caught him right on the head and tore him up pretty good. It would have killed a normal person.”

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“It seemed like there was always an-other natural leader ready to take the reins as the next ‘crew boss.’ It just got passed down to another ‘A personality’ each year, someone who wanted the responsibility, and it has always been a smooth transition

as far as I know,” said Olson, whose young-er brothers, as well as his son Taz have all been members of “the crew.”

He said word of mouth travels quickly and local ranchers generally know who to call to get the job done. •

Terry Wood is a self-taught furniture maker who specializes in custom-made wood pieces. Based in Greybull, Wyoming, he said his love is in taking a gnarly, one-of-a-kind piece of wood and transforming it into a showcase, also one-of-a-kind piece of furniture that will be enjoyed by its owner for life.

“I grew up on a farm in Iowa, and always had a little desire to be working with wood. My uncle was a good finish carpenter and I wanted to work for him, but being a farmer I never got the chance. I eventually left the farm and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. After discharge in 1970, I decided to take advantage of the GI Bill and pursued a ca-reer in Forest and Range Management at Colorado State University. That is probably when I got some real enthusiasm for doing

wood working,” explained Terry of his ear-lier years, adding that while in school he helped various friends with remodeling work to supplement his veteran’s benefits for col-lege expenses.

In 1973, Terry married Denise Kelly, and went to work for the Big Horn National For-est on the Big Horn Interregional Fire Crew. Various rangers figured out Terry could drive a nail, and when not fighting fire kept him busy remodeling various buildings and campgrounds, and building miles of buck/pole and rail fences. He said he enjoyed the experience and felt making sawdust and woodchips was a great improvement over cleaning outhouses or painting. As time passed he slowly accumulated wood working tools, and began making simple furnishing for his own home.

“My wife passed away in 1996, and at that time I had been with the Forest Service for 27 years. I had three kids – Jason and Erik virtually grown, and Sarah age 11. My job at the time required a lot of traveling, and I didn’t think I wanted to do that with her still so young. I took an opportunity to

The creation of a custom furniture maker

(left) terry and his wife cindy reside in greybull, wyoming, on woodacres. terry's first major woodworking project was the construction of his own home, and today he makes his custom pieces of furniture in his shop on the place. (center) many of terry’s pieces feature tops that have a natural edge on one or all sides. he said that in general, working with crooked and uneven pieces of wood is a challenge, but he enjoys working to join them perfectly into a quality piece of furniture. (right) terry working on a wardrobe set in his shop. (right, opposite page) the most common pieces of furniture terry constructs are coffee and end tables. he prefers to work with a combination of walnut and rocky mountain Juniper, and typically has multiple pieces for sale at any given time in businesses across wyoming’s bighorn basin. this particular set of coffee and end tables is made of cedar with antler handles.

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leave the Forest Service and planned to sup-plement my retirement income by working at something in the Greybull area, hopefully doing some kind of woodworking on a more serious scale,” explained Terry.

His first step was building his own house. He approached local contractor Jerry Ewen and explained that he would like to hire him, but also work for him on the project to learn the professional aspects of building a home.

“We were able to work something out, and after building my house I worked for him for about three years. I learned a lot of things from Jerry and his nephew Todd Zeller, who is also a prominent building contractor in the Big Horn Basin today,” noted Terry.

From there he approached Kustom King Cabinets about learning the skills required to make quality cabinetry.

“At the time, Kustom King was owned by Vern Henderson, and operated in conjunc-tion with his two brothers, Ross and Roger. The cabinet shop had a great reputation of doing real quality cabinet work, so I ap-proached Vern for a job. I explained I had some carpentry and basic furniture mak-ing skills, but wanted to learn more, and that they were a very well respected place. I worked for Vern four to six years, some-times full-time and sometimes part-time, and learned so much about matching and joining wood, finishing techniques and the use of a variety of woodworking tools,” noted Terry.

In 2001 Terry married his wife Cindy, and also had different people approaching him about making pieces. He was using what tools he had to make as many pieces as his spare time allowed, until Cindy made a suggestion.

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I thought about that. Then I went to Casper and bought the wood working tools I knew I needed after working at Kustom King, and from there it has just grown and grown,” said Terry.

Today, Terry stays busy making custom pieces for individuals, and to display and sell at various stores in Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin, relying on word of mouth to advertise his trade.

“I get a lot of people who want me to make regular, contemporary pieces of furni-ture, which I can do. But, I much prefer to build unique, one-of-a-kind pieces that are well designed and take a piece of wood that is maybe old and gnarly and doesn’t appear to have much good in it and turn it into some-thing really nice,” explained Terry, adding he uses a mix of walnut and Rocky Mountain juniper, or cedar, for his furniture.

He also noted that one of the early learn-ing curves he had to overcome with his pre-ferred medium of juniper for legs, handles and access pieces was figuring out how to take different, crooked pieces of wood and join them to get the perfect fit.

“I finally figured out a jig for table legs that will hold the material so I can cut the top and bottom and have them be the same plane. That took quite a while to learn, but I have it down pretty good now,” commented Terry with a chuckle.

In addition to finding and cutting the right piece of wood for a project, Terry also enjoys incorporating other natural finds, such as antlers or even old fenceposts, into some-thing new, and said that is one way a cus-tomer can add something off their operation into their home if they want to.

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piece of furniture for that ranching family,” he added.

Working with customers to design and ex-ecute the perfect piece is another aspect of the job Terry enjoys. Another favorite com-ponent is the ability to use his skills to give back to his community.

“I have helped some local charities earn money, and I’m proud of that. We have the Hands Across the Saddle annual fundraiser that gives money to people in the Bighorn Basin that have medical or financial prob-lems – something like a fire. I’ve helped them the last three years, and they’ve earned about $7,000 off my pieces.

“Cindy also works at the Bighorn County Library in Basin, and they have a fundraiser for their endowment that is a three-to-one match from the state. The library raffled a sofa table for that and it brought $1,900 at auction, and $5,700 after the match. Those contributions are very rewarding for me. I don’t make anything, but it’s a different kind of return when you can help other causes,” said Terry.

Of all the pieces he’s designed and made over the years, Terry’s favorites are those made for his children, including a walnut hutch made for his daughter Sarah on her wedding day, and an oak hutch for is stepson, Michael Rufsvold, following his wedding.

“The other thing I really love is when peo-ple know and appreciate how much time and work went into a piece. That’s very reward-ing, and worth making a little less over sell-ing it to someone who just had money but no care or appreciation for what they bought,” commented Terry.

Going forward Terry plans to continue doing what he loves, from scouting for new material, to designing and building a piece from that material, to selling or donating it to worthy causes that will enjoy and use it for years to come. •

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Bone-chilling North Da-kota winters in Crosby don’t rank toward the

top of Bob Svangstu’s list of favorite things, but they do draw him to his shop to spend time at what’s become a favorite task: making wooden wheels.

The wheelwright craft is the oldest known to man, dat-ing back to prehistoric times. Spoked wooden wheels origi-nated in the early 17th centu-ry. The art of creating “dished

wheels,” which are shaped like a saucer with the hollow side

facing outward, is the only sig-nificant change in wooden wheel

design since those early days. The dished design included spokes driv-

en into the hub at an angle so the lowest spoke stood perpendicularly to the load and the upper part of the wheel sloped away from the vehicle. Dishing enabled the body of the vehicle to be wider at the top than at the floor, helping the wheel with-stand the lateral thrust of the axle caused by the action of the animals pulling it.

Svangstu’s love for the wheelwright business began with his childhood expo-sure to horse-drawn vehicles.

“I’ve always had an interest in driv-ing horses,” Svangstu said. “When I was young, my brother and I gathered up old buggies and wagons but we never did much with them. I had a friend who went to a wheelwright school in Montana to learn the trade. Twelve years ago I decided to take the training, too.”

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Hubs are typically made from well-aged oak or elm. Elm has strong cross-grained fibers which help keep the hub from split-ting under strain. Svangstu makes smaller hubs and could order larger ones from Amish wheel makers if necessary. He also orders Amish spokes and felloes, which are almost entirely shaped from hickory.

“Hickory has more spring in it than oak,” Svangstu says. “When you’re driving a vehicle like a buggy, if you hit a rock on the road you want that spoke to give a little bit. Sometimes oak is used for felloes, but not often.”

A myriad of tools is used to create wheels. Mortise bits are used to create square holes in the hub where the spokes fit. In early years, spokes were shaped with an axe, saw and spoke shave so they would provide the maximum amount of strength with a minimum amount of weight. Now a milling machine is used to make both the dowel round ends called tenons and the square ends that fit into the hub.

Fellies are the rounded pieces of wood that form the outside of the wheel. Differ-ent types of wood are used to make fellies, including ash, elm, oak and hickory. The pieces can be cut out of a sheet of wood with a bandsaw or cut in straight pieces and soaked and shaped in a form. The fel-lies Svangtsu uses are steam bent. Holes are bored into the fellies so spokes can be fastened to them.

“It takes four or five days to make four wheels,” Svangstu says. “I use a drill press and make most of the other pieces of equip-ment I need for the job. The main hand tool I use in making wheels is a traveler. It

measures the circumference of the wheel. You can’t use a straight ruler to measure wheels. It has to be a tool that rolls around the outside of the wheel.”

Tenon cutters help create the exact shape necessary to fitting spokes to fel-lies. Once spokes are fitted into the hub and into fellies, there’s one final step to set the tires.

“The iron rim that goes around the out-side of the wheel has to be just slightly smaller than the wheel so it fits tightly on the wheel when the iron tire cools,” Svang-stu said. “The rim has to be heated to just the right temperature to be fitted. If you heat it too much, it will warp the rim and it won’t fit right. If it’s not heated enough, it won’t be tight on the wheel.”

In years gone by, cobs were often used in the fire that heated rims because they quickly come to a high temperature when they burn. Svangstu, who doesn’t have corn crops in his neighborhood, uses lumber to make a fire.

“For the most part we use scrap wood to build a fire on the ground,” Svangstu says. “You lay the rim down in the fire and check it every so often to gauge whether or not it’s hot enough. You don’t want it to be red hot. That’s too much. Old timers used to say if an oak stick rubbed against it felt like it was greased, then the rim was hot enough. If the stick dragged still, the rim should be hotter.”

Once the rim reaches the desired heat, tongs are used to remove it from the fire and wrestle it onto the tire.

“We fasten the wheel down and some-times you have to give the rim a tap to get

it on the wheel,” Svangstu says. “The rim will be hot enough that the wooden fellie smokes as the rim cools down and tightens onto the wheel.”

Many of Svangstu’s customers use their horses and buggies or carts for show in pleasure classes. If someone wants rubber on the wheels, he first puts roll channel iron onto the wheel backwards so the rub-ber fits into the channel iron. He partnered with a friend on a machine used for that.

Svangstu’s wheelwright business doesn’t have him going in circles by any means. Many customers come from the area surrounding his northwestern North Dakota home, but he’s also completed work on wooden wheels for customers in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana. He doesn’t see a growing demand for wooden wheels, but he does see a declining num-ber of wheelwrights, which puts the odds in his favor.

“I’m one of about 100 members of the Western Canadian Wheelwright Asso-ciation,” Svangstu said. “Not all members work on wheels. I don’t foresee any large demand for wooden wheels or wheel-wrights. Sometimes when people learn I’m a wheelwright they chuckle and ask if there’s a big call for that kind of work,” Svangstu added. “There’s no huge demand for it, but there’s always a certain number of people looking to have that kind of work done. It keeps me busy in winter and it’s something I’ve grown to enjoy.” •

(opposite page) bob Svangtsu (right) and his wheelwright friend dale Sparks cool the iron rim they just heated to set on a newly made wheel. (above) bob uses a wide variety of tools to make and repair wheels in the shop on his farm.



Tri-State Livestock News and Farmer & Rancher Exchange are bringing back an old element to the Ag Pride publication. The last “Women in Ag”

special section was published by Tri-State Livestock News in 2001 and was incorporated into Ag Pride for a couple years following that, however it has not been seen for many years in this publication. In an effort to bring the women in ag feature back into focus, Tri-State Live-stock News and Farmer & Rancher Exchange have cre-ated the “Diamonds in the Dirt.” This section will annu-ally feature strong, hardworking, determined women from across the region who are still involved in an ag-related field. These women are leaders by their own right and are deserving of the “diamond” label as they have shined through being polished and buffed by working most of their lives in the “dirt” of agriculture.

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In the case of the Hotchkiss ranch in the Slim Buttes of northwestern South Da-kota, the cowboy staying on the ranch full-time is a young woman. Jessie Hotchkiss, 25, has never wanted to be anywhere else. Growing up 65 miles north of Newell, SD and about nine miles south of Reva, SD, she knew from childhood that she was where she always wanted to be. After fin-ishing the sixth grade in the country school nearby, she was home schooled thereafter, much to her relief. Somehow, with her life centered around horses and cattle, she just never felt very comfortable in school. Home-schooling afforded her the time to help on the ranch as well.

Jessie and her older brother Ty, 27, grew up working alongside their folks, Dan and Sandy, Uncle Marc and Aunt Jill Hotch-kiss, and with her grandparents Howard and June Hotchkiss on the ranch. Fam-ily ties are important and this tightly knit family is a shining example of how to work together in love and respect. The loss of Howard several years ago was a hard blow and he is missed every day by Jessie.

The Slim Buttes are an L-shaped, rough set of ridges and buttes that extend for miles – the Hotchkiss ranch lies on the northern side of them, on the eastern end. Ex-cellent grass, with brush and timber, makes it a cowman’s paradise. The weather is a bit more temperate in the Buttes

and typically, there’s a little more rain than in the surrounding country. The terrain is varied, with meadows, hills, deep draws, pine clad ridges and pinnacles that thrust straight up toward the sky. Saddle horses are a necessity and good dogs make han-dling cattle easier.

“I never wanted to do anything else,” Jessie says. “I love everything about it and I’m happiest when I’m around cattle and horses.” Her ranch work isn’t restricted to just what she does from a horse, as this ca-pable woman runs the haying equipment, fences, and whatever else needs done on the ranch. It’s all part of the life, with no one part more or less important than an-other.

Good horses, used for caring for the cows, add a great deal of satisfaction to Jessie’s day-to-day work. She enjoys see-ing the new foals arrive every spring, and looks forward to them becoming a using horse on the ranch. Feeling a young horse progress toward a finished ranch horse thrills her, and the many miles on the ranch makes that transition quite seamless for the youngsters. She admires the bridle horse tradition of riding and has worked with some good bridle horse people, such as Dwight Hill of Idaho, who she runs some horses with. “One of my goals is to get a horse straight up in the bridle,” Jessie said. Her desire to learn and improve her horse-

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manship works well with her love of seeing the country from the back of a horse.

The cow dogs on the ranch are also an important part of Jessie’s life. “I love it when the dogs actually work like they’re supposed to,” she says, laughing. With 11 dogs total, keeping them all busy and lis-tening would be a test of patience, but Jes-sie takes it in stride. The dogs are home-bred Hanging Tree/Border Collie cross and have a lot of grit and try. The dogs travel well and get over the country alongside her saddle horses with ease. She uses them to get to places it’s hard to get to with a horse, thus the dogs save her many miles when gathering and moving cattle.

Spring seems to be Jessie’s favorite sea-son and she says, “I get excited for calv-ing season every year. When that first baby hits the ground I’m so happy.” She goes on to say, “I love calving out heifers and seeing the miracle every time one of them calves and knows exactly what to do.”

Besides getting joy from watching the calves and colts playing, she is very inter-ested in the genetics of the cow herd. “It’s fun to see how each generation improves. Our heifers are so nice this year,” she said, adding, “they’re gentle and nice to handle and really good mothers.”

“Jessie always knows each cow and can see one over on a ridge and tell which one it is,” said Sandy, Jessie’s mother.

With the good comes the bad though, and Jessie says, “Losing a critter really bothers me. Whether it’s a cow or a horse, it’s hard. You take care of them and it’s hard if they die.” It’s all part of the life

though, and she just pulls her hat down and goes on.

Following calving season is branding season. Jessie says, “I love branding time. Fall works are good, but branding is best.” Seeing the cows and calves all gathered to-gether is satisfying, plus the gathering of the neighbors and friends is a highlight of the year. “Seeing everyone and roping are the best parts. I do like to rope,” she said with a shy grin.

Besides her strong family influence throughout her life, Jessie credits neigh-bors who have influenced her greatly, such as Connie Weishaar, a ranch woman who lives north of them. “Connie is just a won-derful person and has always been so good to me,” Jessie said. She also acknowledges that she has a lot of “uncles” who she’s not related to by blood. “I couldn’t have grown up in a better community.”

The ranch and cowboy life isn’t for ev-ery woman, and Jessie knows that. “You have to be willing to work hard and never give up if that’s what you want to do,” Jes-sie explained. “Some of it’s not very glam-orous, that’s for sure. Being arm deep in a cow and covered from head to toe isn’t that great, but it’s all part of the life.” The posi-tives of the life far outweigh the negatives where Jessie is concerned. “The sense of accomplishment after getting a couple thousand little bales put up and stacked is wonderful,” says Jessie.

Jessie doesn’t have a very large peer group or many woman friends her age. Most young women aren’t as interested in being on the ranch full-time and being so far from town. Many can do it, but it’s not what they live and breath. Jessie would

prefer to never go to town at all, but if she does her favorite stop in town is the sale barn. Her favorite “jewelry” may be a nice wild rag with a pretty, engraved silver scarf slide, a good hat, or a new piece of equip-ment for her horses. “I have a weakness for nice gear,” she says with a smile.

The cowboy life isn’t the life for every young person, and cowboy women are far outnumbered by the men. In Jessie’s case, it’s absolutely the only thing she’s ever wanted to do, so where she is, is exactly right for her. She’s a good hand and a fine person – the Hotchkiss ranch and the re-gion are blessed to have her there. •


Yvonne is a native of Gordon, Nebraska, and grew up living the ranch life on the prairie. Her great-grandparents were sod house pioneers. “My dad was a wheat farm-er and never raised livestock, however, all my uncles and grandfathers did so I was accustomed to cattle and horses but it was not until I was grown and married that I got the full introduction.” Yvonne describes, “fortunately, I was not a city gal, so living in isolation, raising a garden and canning, using a clothesline – my favorite appliance – and living the lifestyle of a country gal was something I was comfortable with.”

She learned to quilt and write poetry from her grandmother who was herself a talented artist. Her father was champion fiddler Harry Hanson. Yvonne grew up in an environment that nurtured her talents as an artist, song writer, musician and poet. She describes her early start to writing, “I always wrote little poems growing up, I was a closet poet. I took a photography class one year and the teacher found out I wrote poems, it was she that published my first poem. I write and perform poetry about my life as a South Dakota cattlewoman and enjoy sharing tidbits about the life through

my poetry. I also try to promote beef in my presentation. It is amazing how little folks know about where their beef comes from when you get away from this area.”

As cowboy poetry became more popular Yvonne continued to write more and more and did a little poetry gathering in Valen-tine, NE. Poet Bill Lowman heard her, in-vited her to a poetry gathering in Medora, ND and her career took off from there. “It’s word of mouth, it’s what you do that gets you invited to more and more gatherings.”

Yvonne now calls Clearfield, South Da-kota home, and continues to live the ranch lifestyle with her husband, champion calf roper, Glen Hollenbeck. Together they raise Angus cattle on their third generation family ranch. Yvonne proudly describes the Hollenbeck operation, “My husband, Glen, was born and raised here on the ranch where we live. The ranch was always home to fine Hereford cattle until about the time we took over and we started breeding the cows to Angus bulls. Now all of our cattle are primarily Angus. The ranch has always raised its own replacement heifers and for approximately 50 years have bred the heifers to Longhorn or Correinte bulls and have enjoyed the fact that you never have to pull a calf unless it has a leg back, tail first or something like that. They are virtually trouble free when calving, then we wean the calves early and use them for roping calves and the heifer continues to develop into a good cow and rebreeds eas-ily. Incidentally, my husband is a tie-down calf roper and oftentimes puts on calf rop-

Award winning poet Yvonne Hollenbeck is very modest when it comes to her talents. “I don’t like to brag,” she says, “awards don’t get you jobs.” She was named Top Poet in 2005 by the Academy of

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The Hollenbecks also used to raise horses, “We have always raised registered Quarter Horses that are bred to watch cattle and to make good working horses, whether it be in the pasture or the arena.” When the horse market got so low, they decided to discontinue breeding and raising horses. “We have a good number of young, green-broke horses on hand, but it is sad to not see the young colts running and playing in a big meadow east of our home anymore.”

Yvonne writes about ranch life, about the little things that don’t seem funny when they happen but become humorous later. “It’s the little things that every ranch wife can relate to. When your husband asks you to go for a five minute ride, just so you can open all the gates, or screams directions at you while making you back up a trailer,” she describes. Her poem “Old Eagle Eye” describes how no husband sees the mud tracked in the door onto the rug, but can tell a heifer is going to calve from a mile away. Yvonne jokingly describes the life of a ranch wife, “There are many things that happen in the life of a rancher’s wife that creates fuel for poetry, some of it humorous and some not. Things like pulling a trac-tor that won’t start; warming a baby calf in your bathtub or in front of your kitchen range; trying to figure out a man’s hand sig-nals when sorting cows (or moving equip-

ment or about anything); feeding a greedy feed salesman that just happens to stop once a week at mealtime; describing what some of your laundry chores consist of (and expecting someone to actually believe it can be that bad); and on and on.”

Some of her poetry also is steeped in the harsh life and death struggle of life on the wild prairie. “Give your Horse His Head” is the true story of South Dakota’s worst blizzard in 1952. The little boy described as riding his pony home from school through the storm is her husband Glen.

Another poem “The Rescue Unit” de-scribes how often when times get rough for cattlemen, they have to get creative to survive. Yvonne writes in her own words, “Many ranchers in the Great Plains have raised sheep from time to time to help sup-plement their income. Our ranch is no dif-ferent. In the early ’80s the cattle market was very bad and many places were lost because of the economy. We were able to weather the storm due to the fact that we had approximately 500 ewes which pro-vided us with income, both from the sale of the lambs and from wool, to support our family of six as well as help soften the loss we were experiencing from our cattle. We no longer have sheep on our ranch, but we will never forget how they helped us out.”

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Yvonne Hollenbeck also performs with Jean Prescott, and Liz Masterson as the “Sweethearts in Carhartts.” The three popular performers – their group name inspired by Montana ranch hand DW Gro-ethe’s “The Carhartt Song” – take their show of poetry and music to gatherings and events across the West.

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Braskamp explained that she uses the least invasive method for the dentistry work, so the experience is pleasant for both the horse and the owner.

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“We moved back to my husband’s hometown in 2006,” she said. “We live

on the family farm where he grew up. We mainly came back to be close to our family. We have a great love of South Dakota and the family-feel that this state has. It was a great opportunity to start working at Twin Lakes Animal Clinic, and I have worked really hard to expand the equine horse work we do at the clinic.

Family is certainly an important part of Braskamp’s life. They have four children: Brayden, 7, Tyan, 5, Livya, 3, and Lane, 1. She hopes that one day her children will have the same passion for horses that she and her husband have. They work hard to instill a love of agriculture in their chil-dren. In addition to the horses, they also keep a few chickens and lambs around, as well as putting up some hay – all projects the kids can get involved in.

Braskamp also takes time to be active in the community. In addition to hauling her kids to all of their extracurricular ac-tivities, she is involved in a Women’s Bible Study that meets once a week.

Without a doubt, balancing a career, marriage, kids and all the extras can take a toll, but Braskamp has achieved success balancing it all.

“When I first graduated, there weren’t as many women veterinarians, but today, there are more female equine veterinarians in the field,” she admitted. “When I first graduated, I was very young and a wom-an, and for some people that was difficult for people to understand. I credit a lot to growing up with three brothers in a ranch community, so I understand how things work. For some people, I had to earn their respect through time. You definitely have to be comfortable with the horses and be

able to read them, as well as communicate with the owner to try to help them figure out a way to fix their horse. For me, it’s also important to keep up with new treatments and new ideas as people and the indus-try changes. I have to adapt and keep up, so I can offer my patients the best care possible.”

Her advice for others considering this field is to really explore the options through job shadowing and internships.

“Be sure that this is the area you want to work in. It’s a lot of hard work. It takes a lot of schooling. It’s not a glamorous job. It’s physically demanding. It’s not the ideal job when you’re trying to have kids. My ad-vice is to get as much experience as you can to make sure that it’s what you want to do, especially if the individual is interest-ed in being a veterinarian. Get the most ex-perience you can in that field. Have a hard work ethic. Be persistent and keep trying.”

As for Braskamp’s love of horses – it only strengthens with time.

“It helps that I grew up with horses and have been around them my whole life,” she said. “I know how much these animals mean to the owner, and I can con-nect with them that way. We definitely have some great horses in South Dakota, and I’m happy to be able to work with great people, too.” •

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“My aunt, Susie Orr, owned and oper-ated Greeley Hat works in Greeley for many years,” Kaycee says. “Another aunt, Coleen Orr, owns and operates Cowboy Up Hatters in Denver. My specialty is top quality beaver and beaver blend hats. She makes each hat one at a time.”

In past decades, when both men and women routinely donned headgear, hatters or milliners were plentiful. Now Kaycee is one of a handful found in the U.S.

“It’s a fun trade,” Kaycee says. “But having a mentor to help you learn hat-mak-ing skills is definitely helpful. A lot of hat makers are very careful not to share their trade secrets, so it isn’t easy to get into the business.”

Creating high quality hats begins with the proper equipment, which isn’t easily acquired either. The wooden conformateur Kaycee uses to measure customer’s heads to ensure the best possible fit, was made in

the 1800s. She plac-es the conformateur on the client’s head then places a sheet inside it. The con-

formateur stamps the sheet with the client’s head shape.

“It’s a very rare item,” Kaycee said. “Most of my equipment is considered an-tique.”

Kaycee uses the pattern created by the conformateur to select the proper wooden blocks (marked with specific sizes i.e. 7 3/4”) to identify the customer’s size and head shape. Common head shapes are long oval and round oval.

“Once in a while you’ll have a custom-er with a very round head,” Kaycee says. “Or perhaps some kind of accident caused a head shape variation. Once I know the head shape, I select a wood block used for shaping and a felt hat blank based on the desired color and quality. I then begin steaming and molding the felt to create the hat.”

Each of Kaycee’s hats are care-fully constructed to the person’s head shape and hand creased to fit the customers face shape, personality, occupation, and geographic location.

“A custom made hat is really an artifact of the person who wears it,” Kaycee says. “Crowns and brims can be adjusted to any size or shape. Customers also select the type of hat band they want. The most com-

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Although she would be happy to de-sign a woman’s hat, most of Kaycee’s cur-rent customers are men connected to the cattle industry.

“I haven’t seen as much demand for custom made women’s hats,” she noted.

Kaycee customized her business when she began her hattery in 2003. The Bar None brand is the Orr’s family cattle brand that dates back to the 1800s in Colorado.

“The brand was a mark of excellence to several cattlemen around the nation,” Kaycee says. “The homestead ranch is in Granby (CO), home of several award winning Hereford cattle from National Western Stock Show, Kansas City Royal, Arizona Nationals, Fort Worth Stock Show, and more. My family has been raising and showing cattle since 1920.”

The Bar None trademark was comple-mented by the color purple, signifying the color of a champion. Kaycee has incorpo-rated the purple color into her hat liners not only to carry on the family ranch his-tory, but also to signify that each hat is of top quality.

Kaycee offers a variety of products and services. Each custom hat is unique to the client so the price varies depending on de-sired product quality.

“Most of the felt available is made of rabbit fur,” Kaycee says. “Felt is also made

of a combination of rabbit and beaver fur. The highest quality hat I offer is 100 per-cent beaver fur. It holds its shape and has a very nice feel, a velvety feel. There are several colors to choose from, including black, which is most often requested. Sil-verbelly and natural are also popular.”

Kaycee also specializes in renovations, making old hats look new.

“It’s often that favorite hat wives won’t let guys wear due to the dirt build up or a hat that simply needs a deep scrubbing,” Kaycee says. “Most hats can be renovated and look brand new. Sometimes marks such as alcohol, sugar based liquids, ma-nure, and blood can be difficult to remove. If it’s your favorite hat it’s worth a try.”

Hat prices vary according to felt qual-ity and hat band accessories, etc. All Bar None hats are lined with purple silk, Kay-cee’s trademark. Prices range from $375 to $700 and up.

“Customer ser-vice is one of the hallmarks of my hattery,” Kaycee says. “There’s a bit of perfectionism in me. That’s impor-tant when you’re trying to create a unique artifact for someone. It takes plenty of patience to do all the steam-ing and cooling that

goes into making a hat. I also sand down the felt to give it an even smoother feel. On average it takes about 15 hours to create a hat.”

Obtaining the grosgrain ribbon neces-sary for making hatbands can be challeng-ing. Since the product isn’t widely used, supplies are sometimes obscure and lim-ited. Getting the word out about her prod-ucts has also put Kaycee to the test.

“I built my business the old fashioned way by pounding the pavement and word of mouth,” Kaycee says. “The hat busi-ness overall has suffered in recent years with the evolution of the ball cap. Still, there are people who want something unique to themselves. That’s what I do at Bar None.” •

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Amanda Richardson opened her busi-ness in January of 2012 when she bought the equipment and supplies from Jim Birdsall, Rapid City, SD. After moving the equipment and getting it all set up, Rich-ardson worked with Birdsall for about two months, being trained on the equipment, how to build boots, and how to repair oth-ers. Through word of mouth, rodeos and Facebook, her business has grown rapidly and she’s extremely busy.

Repairing boots is her bread and but-ter, though she really enjoys building cus-tom boots. “I’d like to get back to building boots, but I’m so busy with repairs I don’t have the time,” says Richardson. “I re-ally want to though, so hopefully I’ll get to where I can again.”

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Tearing down a pair of boots for repair is a real eye-opener. Some brands of boots don’t have matching shanks, some shanks are plastic, and some boots have canvas instead of leather for the lining. Many are pegged with plastic pegs or nails, which break or deteriorate quickly. The deplor-able workmanship can be improved upon greatly by Richardson’s meticulous atten-tion to detail, making the boots better by being repaired.

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done,” says Richardson. Every boot is re-paired on a last, therefore maintaining the original size of the boot for the customer. “I make sure I match the stitches to the holes when I resole, too. It weakens the welt if you don’t.”

“I prefer to put a full half sole on when I resole. I like how it looks and I think it’s just a better sole,” says Richardson. “Jack Hoffstetter from Newell (South Dakota) taught me how to put one on.” The full half sole extends all the way from the toe to the heel of the boot. Replacement soles can be Neolite, grippy or slick, or leather. It’s not a quick process, but worth the time and myriad steps to accomplish. She can also patch boots that have a tear or hole worn in them.

She rebuilds a lot of heels on boots and can put a spur ledge on a boot that doesn’t have one. Richardson also is very careful to balance the heels on the boots so that they are even and land flat. When a boot is worn for hours at a time, the smallest difference can put undue strain on knees, hips and back for the wearer. “I’ve started working with a chiropractor in Sturgis to do “corrective shoeing” on customers foot-wear. Just like on a horse, the right ‘shoe-ing’ is very important,” says Amanda.

The hardest boots to repair are the ones she built herself or other very good qual-ity handmade boots. “They’re built so well that they don’t come apart easily,” she says.

Her broad customer base includes ranchers, horse trainers, barrel racers, business people, and rodeo hands. “I seem to repair a lot of boots for saddle bronc

riders,” she says, smiling, “They seem to be awfully hard on their boots.” Her cus-tomers mostly come from South Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, and Cali-fornia, with boots either being dropped off at the shop, her drop-off points or shipped to her.

Richardson uses the social media ven-ue of Facebook to stay in touch with her customers and has a “Tip of the Week” to share with her customers and Facebook friends. She will show a problem with a boot or how to tell a quality boot from a poor one, plus has care tips.

“Most people just don’t spend much time taking care of their boots. A lot of the repairs are due to poor care,” says Rich-ardson. “Boots need to be kept clean. If they get muddy, clean them up and put some leather conditioner on them. The welts especially need to be cleaned and conditioned or it eats the stitching.”

“Boots also need to rest,” says Amanda. “Give them a day off to dry out and for the leather to recover.”

“When the sole gets bad, get them re-paired. The dirt and moisture are hard on the inside of the boot,” she explains.

When a pair of boots are done being repaired, Richardson carefully treats the leather with conditioner and shines them up. Boots ready to pick up undoubtedly look better than they’ve looked since they came out of the box. It’s a point of pride for Amanda to have them look that way for the customer.

The Ace High answering machine says that she is open Monday through Sunday, so there isn’t much time to play for Rich-

ardson. Her “day off” is spent working at Belle Fourche Livestock Exchange, Belle Fourche, SD, where she works any job they need her on every Thursday. She enjoys the variety and the social interaction with the crew and the customers.

She also enjoys training horses, espe-cially for barrels, and has had success in the arena, but her business hasn’t allowed much time to ride. Amanda, 27, shares a love for the horses with her mom, Cindy Richardson. She also has a brother Sam who is an electrician.

“This year has been amazing,” says Richardson, “But it’s sure been a lot of hard work. I love being self-employed though,” she says, “There are disadvan-tages, but the advantages make up for it.”

So, if your boots are needing some at-tention and you want them done well, Ace High Custom Boots would be a great des-


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If you want to order a pair of custom boots so the repairs don’t come as often, Ace High is also the place to call, with the opportunity to order a pair of Honcho Boots just the way you want them. Someday, when things slow down a little, perhaps you can even order a pair with the Ace High stamp in the tops.

Quality crafts-manship is what you’ll find at Ace High Custom Boots and Repairs, with one lone woman working hard to do the best job possible every time. •

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