Ranch Weeks with Steve Mantle | July 11-17  and August 1-7, 2010 Montana Horses will open the Mantle Ranch, and our life with horses, for two 7-day Ranch Work Weeks in 2010.  We happily invite a limited number of qualified guests to assist as we go about the business of "making horses" and the hustle of every day life on a working horse ranch.    Kail and Renee are proud to be joined by cousin Steve Mantle,  professional horse trainer and contract wild horse trainer for the BLM and owner of the Mantle Wild Horse Training and Adoption Center (www.mantleswildhorses.com) in Wyoming.  Steve's reputation as a leading expert at gentling and training wild horses makes his participation in these exclusive stays a feather in the cap of any participant, and an honor for the Mantles, a family of horsemen, and their various Mantle Ranches across the West.  This isn't our hobby, this is our life.  We want you to share it with us. Join us.  Each seven-day trip will emulate the normal summer work of our horse operation and involves "Learning by Doing."  We believe the best way to learn how to gather horses is to gather horses, the best way to teach a horse or rider how to be a ranch or trail horse is to get outside on the trail and go, and the only way to really know horses is to start at the beginning and try it yourself.

We Accept:

LEARNING ~ Six Days of Training with Steve Mantle and a colt. ~ Plus horsemanship sessions on THE ULTIMATE HORSE COURSE on your ranch-trained Western saddle horse. (Or bring your own, if you think it would be beneficial for you and your horse.**) DOING ~ Daily Horse Roundups (gather in the herd from several thousand acres and sort off the horses needed, every morning ) ~ Ranch Work: moving stock, shoeing, scattering salt, feeding, riding/fixing fence, mucking around in the corrals sorting and doctoring, hauling stock, and whatever else needs to be done - it changes every day!        ~ Riding: Use your saddle horse, or perhaps your colt, to do the daily chores on the ranch.  Miles and miles of mountain and foothill Montana horse country and hours in the saddle await. ~Horsemanship: Utilize The Ultimate Horse Course.

Ranch Weeks featured in the Feb issue of WH!

Warning:  We are a real working ranch,  not a guest ranch.  Kail often says, "If you want a watered down, packaged version of the Old West-this isn't it."  No kidding.  If you are interested in visiting a guest ranch, we can offer some great suggestions of some wonderful ranches that use our horses.  Our accommodations are 4-person bunkhouse style cabins divided between men and women, we can accommodate couples, too.   Excellent meals are taken with our cowboys at the clubhouse.  We offer you a chance to run horses, because that is what we do and we want you to share it.  We offer you a chance to work with Steve Mantle and real wild mustangs because that is the truest way of learning communication with horses.   We can offer you a chance to see what a real working horse ranch, a horse leasing business, does on a normal day.  We offer you The Ultimate Horse Course as an intense, concentrated environment to encounter many backcountry trail horsemanship challenges. Everything we have and do is possible because our livelihood is generated from leasing our horses, not hosting guests.  Your presence helps us.   If, in return, you enjoy the exhilaration of a herd of horses galloping full-on and free ahead of you, and the challenge of accomplishing something you didn't think you had in yourself,  then we have helped you, too.  The experience of life with our horses is our greatest and most valuable asset.  If we don't share it with others, then we don't deserve it.      Riding level is intermediate to advanced (you decide how much you can handle).  Cost is $3000 per person for 7 days, this includes your horses and tack, lodging, meals, and transfers from Bozeman, MT the day prior and following.  Lodging (no meals) is available the night prior to each session.  A minimum of four people and maximum of eight is required to conduct each Week.  **If you wish to bring your own horse for horsemanship session, please contact us for details. Reservation forms available here or call 888 685-3697.

Montana Horses, Inc. Kail Mantle and Renee Daniels-Mantle 9700 Clarkston Road Three Forks, MT 59752 (406)285-3541 or (888) 685-3697-toll free (406) 581-6501-cell (406)285-0918-fax From outside the US, dial 001 406 285 3541 www.montanahorses.com | info@montanahorses.com