Master saddle maker Jeff Gollehon and his young colleague Sterling Campbell spend a good share of their work week cutting, wetting, shaping and tooling hand-crafted saddles in the loft area of Grizzly ...

REE HEIGHTS, S.D. - Lonnie Smith's duplicator saw screamed as it trimmed an 8- by 4-foot cut of wood. This process created three wooden bars to be used to create a saddle tree, or a frame around which ...

When I went to a Gene Autry or Roy Rogers movie as a kid with my folks we saw them jumping on "Champ" or "Trigger" with ease, not realizing the saddle made it possible to mount and chase the bad guys.

BARNESVILLE, Minn. – People are often surprised by what Cliff Langerud does for a living. The Barnesville man is a saddle maker. He's made more than 550 saddles by hand. "They're absolutely wonderful, ...

When Ben Nech was 12 years old, he wanted a pair of chaps. But he couldn't afford the $100 to $200 to buy a pair. "I scraped up enough money to buy the leather and put together some old tools and ...

I couldn't see the address, but I had a feeling that I'd found my story subject just outside of McKinney, on the way to Greenville. I crossed a cattle guard, passing paint horses and longhorns along ...

LAS CRUCES - Victor Hermanson doesn't collect accolades or reviews based on his craft, even though he could. Hermanson is a gifted saddle maker who resides on the outskirts of Las Cruces. Hermanson is ...

At a time in which scores of items are mass-produced in places far outside of the United States, Drew Clark's work stands tall. Clark, 54, is a custom saddlemaker in Colcord, Oklahoma, and crafts each ...

BUFFALO — Paul Clark didn't set out in life to be a saddle maker. In fact, he tried a lot of different things before opening his custom saddle shop in Buffalo in 2020. But sometimes, your vocation ...