Well-respected horse trainer and clinician Peter Campbell died Mar. 22, 2017. Raised in Banff, Alta., Peter began his cowboy career as a wrangler in Banff National Park. Influenced by Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance, he rapidly became a popular trainer and clinician, spending 30 years conducting clinics across North America from his home in Wyoming. A …
Once again, the 11th Annual Mane Event in Red Deer, Alta., was a major success, bringing together horse aficionados from all equine disciplines. The range of clinicians ran the gamut from dressage to reining, barrel racing to eventing, and most clinics featured “ride with the clinicians” for participants to get some hands-on coaching. The cornerstone …
Congratulations to Western recording artist Ryan Fritz who received the prestigious Wrangler Award at the 56th Annual Western Heritage Awards on April 22, 2017, at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Okla. Ryan earned the award for Best Original Western Composition for the title song of his fifth studio album, Keeper …
WESTERN ART & ARTISANS Check out art by Russell, Remington and Beil— still three of the most influential Western artists—and handcrafted beauties from some of the top makers and rising stars of the artisan community. You can read the whole article in the June/July 2017 issue of Canadian Cowboy Country magazine. To subscribe, click here or call Marie at 1-800-943-7336. …
It’s been a wild ride for the women of the Canadian Girls Rodeo Association (CGRA), an organization of all-female rodeo competitors. They came together to compete, they fought prejudice and elitism with talent and class, and they found acceptance and honour in the most unlikely of places — the rodeo arena. “Way, way back you …