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 ...

In Kohala on the Big Island, saddle makers of the next generation are busy keeping it alive. Ikaika Akima spends two hours, tapping away on rawhide to make his mark. "I'm trying to make the leaf look ...

FRESNO, Calif. /*Al Gould*/ told us, "When I was in the 3rd grade my mother give me some beginner tools." The young boy would work leather and dream of riding in Rodeos. Today he's a master with his ...

HOHHOT -- Sanding pieces of wood, cutting leather, and carving delicate patterns, Qinggltu, 39, makes saddles in his workshop in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

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, ...

BELGRADE, Mont. — Passing on life lessons are time-honored ways of keeping essential professions healthy and vibrant. They are especially relevant when one generation gifts its knowledge and passion ...

Exhibits at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum are in galleries, hallways, outdoors, and even in barns. Inside the towering Horse and Cattle Barn on the southern edge of the 47-acre campus is ...

When you run your hands across one of Chas Weldon's custom-made saddles, you're handling a practical, functional work of art that's meant to be used, not propped up in an art gallery or displayed in a ...

The meticulously crafted saddles are hand-stamped and custom-worked and come out of a shop in the Colorado mountains. A prison shop. In a unique partnership with a landmark saddlery in Lower Downtown ...