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Mouthy horses are like little kids;they’ve got nothing to do and all dayto do it in. If you don’t give a kid

something to do, he’ll stick things in hismouth, climb on the furniture, draw on thewalls, or do a number of things that’ll driveyou crazy. Horses need both mental and phys-ical stimulation to be happy and content. Ifyou don’t give your horse a job and keep hismind busy, he’ll find an outlet for his pent upenergy and a way to keep his mind busy. In alot of cases, that results in the horse develop-ing some sort of vice (weaving, cribbing, etc.)including being mouthy – constantly playingwith your shirt sleeve, nibbling on the leadrope or chewing on the Handy Stick, forexample. Very athletic horses and younghorses tend to develop this habit. The badnews is that mouthy behavior often turns intobiting – a very dangerous vice. The goodnews is if you give your horse a job, as simpleas making him move his feet forwards, back-wards, left and right, his mouthiness will dis-appear.

Don’t Invite the Problem If you know your horse tends to get

mouthy and nibbles on you, protect yourspace and take the temptation away from himto begin with. Don’t let him get close enoughto mouth on you. Anytime you’re with him,keep him out of your personal hula hoopspace – a 4-foot circle that surrounds you andserves as your safety zone. When you areworking with a horse, always imagine thatthere’s a 4-foot circle drawn around you —almost like an invisible electric fence. Unlessyou invite the horse into your personal hulahoop space, he should keep a respectful, safedistance from you.

Make Those Feet Move When the horse does get mouthy, put his

feet to work. The most effective punishmentyou can give a horse is making him move hisfeet. Horses are basically lazy creatures andwould rather stand around with their legscocked daydreaming about their next mealthan moving their feet and working up asweat. They’ll always choose the option withthe least amount of work involved.

So if you’re standing next to your horseand he starts nibbling on your shirt, turnaround and put his feet to work and turn a

negative into a positive. Practice someBacking Up, Lunging for Respect, Sidepassingor Circle Driving. The horse can’t mouth onyou and move his feet at the same time, espe-cially if you make him hustle with energy anddo lots of changes of direction. If you’re con-sistent, it won’t take long for the horse to con-nect the two together; when he gets mouthy,you’ll make his feet move. One of the bestways to stop a mouthy horse, and especiallyhorses that bite, is to back them up. BackingUp is a very humbling exercise for a horse todo. When a horse gets mouthy or tries to biteyou, it’s a very forward action; he’s comingforward to get you. When you back him up, it’sthe complete opposite; he’s being submissiveto you by moving out of your space.

Return the FavorThen there are some horses that like to

put things in their mouth – the halter, leadrope, Handy Stick, etc. Most people’s firstreaction when the horse grabs a hold of thelead rope or halter is to try and tug the objectout of his mouth. However, the more you try topull something away from them, the mouthierthey will get. It’s like a puppy with a toy. Themore you try to yank it away, the more he gritshis teeth and hangs onto it. Instead of gettinginto a tug-o-war with the horse, use reversepsychology and “mouth” him back. Use bothof your hands to vigorously rub the horse’smuzzle for a good twenty seconds. Whileyou’re not hurting the horse, you’re rubbinghim firmly enough to make him feel uncom-fortable. It’s like when your uncle would scuffyour head at a family get-together. Every kidin the world hates that. It didn’t hurt when hetousled your hair, but it was annoying and youdidn’t like it, and you soon learned how toavoid him. It’s the same philosophy with yourhorse. If he wants to get mouthy, take all thefun out of it for him by roughing up his muzzlewith your hands.

Bait HimLet’s say that your horse grabs the halter

in his mouth as you go to put it on. As soon ashe grabs it, instead of trying to pull it out ofhis mouth, stand beside him and tug one endof the halter up in his mouth and then theother end to make him feel uncomfortable.When you do that, the horse might throw hishead up in the air, but you’ll continue to tug

up on the halter. You’re not really hurting him,but you are making him feel uncomfortable.Do that for ten seconds and then let the horselower his head and spit the halter out of hismouth. Then dare him again by waving thehalter in front of his nose. If he grabs it, repeatthe process. You’ll only have to do that two orthree times, and pretty soon, those horseswise up and want no part of grabbing a holdof the halter. You might be thinking, “Well Clinton, isn’t thatgoing to make the horse head shy or not wantto accept the bit?”No, because you’re only making him feeluncomfortable when he gets mouthy. You’renot physically putting the halter in his mouthand then roughing him up. He’s choosing totake the bait and be mouthy. As long as youuse common sense and only make him feeluncomfortable when he grabs a hold of theobject, you don’t have to worry about him get-ting head shy or not accepting the bit.

Punish Thy SelfAnother tactic is to make the horse think

that he’s punishing himself. For example, a lotof young horses like weanlings or yearlingsget mouthy. They’ll come up to you and startnibbling on the sleeve of your shirt or yourjeans. If your horse walks up to you and startsplaying with your sleeve, without even look-ing at him, flap your elbow out to the side sothat he runs into it with his nose and feelsuncomfortable. You have to time it just right sothat at the same time he leans forward to playwith your shirt, he runs into your elbow. Thesecret is not to look at him or act like you’removing your arm on purpose. It’s like yourelbow just developed a nervous twitch. If youlook at the horse, it’s like you’re acknowledg-ing that you’re the one making him feeluncomfortable. You want the horse to thinkthat he’s doing it to himself. Every time heleans in to nibble on you, he runs into yourelbow. Horses always learn faster when theyteach themselves the lesson. It won’t be longbefore your horse is like “Man, I really needto keep my lips to myself because I seem tobe running into his elbow.” !

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Written by Clinton AndersonDownunder Horsemanship

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Do you have a horse that behaves as long as he’s with his buddies, but as soon as he has to leave, he becomes hard to handle?The secret to overcoming this problem is to make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult. If you’re riding with a groupof horses, use them as obstacles to trot and canter around. If your horse wants to get back to them, let him, and when he gets

there, really put him to work by hustling his feet in and out and around all the other horses. Then take him 100 feet away (or less if youneed a better starting point) and let him rest. Then take him back to his buddies and do the same thing. The objective is to get thehorse to think that his buddies equal work. Make it hard where he wants to be and easy where you want him to be. With repetition,your horse won’t think his buddies are much fun anymore. !

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BrochureA Guest’s Adventure

Written by Julie McNearyof the Purple Rose Ranch

Her name is Athena, and I haven’tseen her in 18 years. !We workedtogether in California and were

good friends, funny friends, laughing allthe time. ! As luck would have it when Imoved to another house, all my otherfriends disappeared and my husband wasout of town, so Athena stuck with me andhelped me move. !Then in 2000, we movedto Kingman and I lost touch with her, butshe was never off my mind. ! To knowAthena is to love her, it’s like having aMeerkat next to you all the time, she is fast,she is hyper, she is funny and intelligentand after guiding her into our ranch I feltlike I had just helped the space shuttleland. !She’s 48 and looks 20 and is one ofthe few people that can make ME laugh.

The first outing was to town and ourcar broke down, so that wrecked that day,the next day I taught her how to ride theATV and she left me in the dust, then wetook the Polaris on the roughest road onthe ranch. She bonded with my horses andas my husband went to the Rodeo ChiliFeed, we just relaxed on the porch as thesun went down.

Athena walked out to take a photo andscreamed, “Snake! Green!” !She was 1 ft.away from a Mohave Rattlesnake. Athenadoesn’t scream, and spotting the snake Igrabbed my gun, which didn’t havesnakeshot in it at the time and beganunloading on the snake as it headed closerto the porch. ! 12 shots later, looking likeswiss cheese, it was dead.

Athena shot it 3 more times just to besure. !We cut off the head, buried it, pouredbleach over it, all new things to Athena. !Bythe time my husband got home we werehigh on adrenalin.

The next night we went to the cowplop. Who won? You guessed it....Athena,$950, which made her vacation. ! She leftthe next morning with cash in her pocketand stories to tell for months. ! Miss yaMeerkat! !

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The causes of Allergic RespiratoryDisease are many but some general class-es of allergens are more common. Severaltypes of mold spores and weeds found inotherwise high quality hay or straw seemto bother many horses. These contaminantsare seasonal, so for the horse in pasture theproblem may only be seen in spring andsummer. However, hay that is taken fromlocal fields represents a year round source.Each year, the horse usually shows moresymptoms as the body’s sensitivity to theseallergens gets stronger and stronger.

Treatment of this problem can be assimple as keeping your horse outsidewhere air circulation is optional (fresh airvs. stagnant dust filled air). If your horsemust stay in the stall most or all of the time,try to store your hay in a separate place;maximize airflow in the barn. If it is cold,put a blanket on the horse and soak the hayfed to the horse in water first.

If the problem is not taken care of bythe above steps, then your veterinarianshould get more involved in the process.Diagnostically, your doctor can help byperforming a simple procedure that looksat the fluid and cells in the horse’s lungs todetermine the severity of the allergy.Secondly there is a relatively new bloodtest that can specifically determine what“things” the horse is allergic to and allowfor production of a “customized” treatmentfor that individual horse. Other generaltreatments include corticosteroids (corti-sone) and bronchodilators (like thosetaken by human asthma patients). Theimportant thing to realize is that recogniz-ing your horse has this problem is morethan half the battle. Once that is done,proper treatment can dramatically improvethe usefulness of your horse.

What isRingbone?

Ringbone is a term used by horse peo-ple and veterinarians when they haveidentified arthritis in either the coffin

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Hoof BeatsThe Love of a Rescue Horse

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Written by Andrea Smith

For many years I boarded my horseLady at an equestrian center. She wasin the company of some pretty lofty

horses and what she might have lacked inbreeding and class she made up for in anobility and spirit all her own. She had beenrough-shod by her former owner and badlyabused by one before that.

I bought her for a mere six-hundreddollars from her drunken owner. A bargainas horses go, and considering he got morefor the saddle he sold at the local feed storewhere I had first seen the notice of sale forher. When I went to pick her up the formerowner offered to buy her back and I refused.As he unleashed his anger and profanity, Iwalked Lady to the road to avoid a con-frontation or any chance of losing her for anyreason. I waited for the trailer to load herand to take her away from her past life andto a new one with a new beginning.

She became a pet, a friend and com-panion. She had been a rodeo horse and agood barrel horse. But not anymore. Ladywas never ridden again. I pampered her andhung out with her. We watched the otherhorses go through their training andGymkhana and pass by with their riders ontop. But we walked the trails together and Iturned her loose in the arena just to watchher run... her mane and tail blowing in the

wind.Every time I looked into her eyes they

told a sad story. It is the same look I haveseen over the past years in the eyes of manyhorses. It is a look that never goes away andburns for infinity deep inside their memory.It is the look of a rescue horse. And for everyhorse that has been rescued there is hopeand resolve. There will be victory each dayas the horse begins to awake to a newerkinder day. One without pain and suffering.And when all is said and done and the res-cue horse emerges strong and whole againand can run

again with his head held high, youknow that you have made a friend for life.

I’ve been told never to turn your backon a horse that has been badly abusedbecause they never forget and will strikeback. I will tell you that a rescue horse willlove you unconditionally and forever. Myheart has been ripped out on and off thesepast years with too many unwanted and neg-lected horses that deserved better in life.I’ve had my share of success stories withhorses that were old and had reached theend of their days and others that had justreached the end but had enough fight left inthem to survive.

I wasn’t in the business of saving hors-es. I was a one horse person who was tryingto save broken kids and teens. And miracu-lously I had a dream and place where they

found each other. The kids and the horsesshared a common bond all of their own. Andit worked like magic! But many kids canhave a happily-ever-after story of theirchoosing and with intervention of some sort.Horses don’t. We don’t throw kids away orsend them to slaughter. It is this insanity andreasoning that drives a lot of us to do thework we do.

I know I share my story with many oth-ers who have dedicated their life to rescuingthe alarming number of horses in this areathat need homes and who will continue todevote their efforts to this cause. I know notevery horse can be saved or will be fortu-nate enough to find a home. Sadly, there aremany who will meet an unknown fate at theauction. It is the nature of the beast.

But, if it doesn’t matter that your horsenot be pedigreed or of show quality and ifyou just want a friend...someone to hang outwith or walk trails with, or even ride, a horsethat will be forever grateful and loving, thenyou need to open your heart and home to arescue horse. !

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Andrea Smith is a freelance writer inMohave County and contributer toHorse ‘n' Around The Mountains

She is the owner and Director of theTri-State Therapeutic Riding Facility in

Mohave Valley and Kingman

What is afreeze mark?

The BLM uses freeze marking to identifycaptured wild horses and burros. Freezemarking is a permanent, unalterable way

of identifying each wild horse or burro indi-vidually. It is applied to the left side of the ani-mal’s neck and uses the International AlphaAngle System – a series of angles and alphasymbols. The mark contains the registeringorganization (U.S. Government), year of birth,and registration number. The following exam-ple shows the interpretation for an alphaangle code freeze mark. !

____________________Ref. BLM Adopt a Wild Horse

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Have Fun But Keep it SafeA Quest for Cash

April l7, 1987 – September 19, 2011Written by

Mary H. Iozzo – Iozzo Shoeing

The sun was warm on the many dimen-sions of his shiny red coat. Even now, onhis last day, he was still more regal than

most horses are on their best day. Despite thepain, he was still a gentleman, kind to andcareful of the people around him.

Cash overcame an early injury in life tobecome a sire of successful barrel racing,roping, ranching, race, eventing, and showhorses. He improved each of the mares hewas bred to by passing on his calm, smartmind, willingness to work, size, large openhocks, beautiful neck and shoulder confor-mation and fluid movement. His foals all havespeed, but they are smart and have the abili-ty to rate and learn their jobs.

Cash lived with the Iozzo family inGolden Valley, Arizona and then went to livewith the Vollbracht family, also of GoldenValley, Arizona. He never missed a meal andwas a big eater and talker…yelling out togreet the mares or to announce it was feedingtime. He was shown once, and when he wasled from the stall area to the arena, the hold-ing area became hushed and people cleareda path for him. He snorted once, as if to make

sure everyone knew they were looking atwhat a real stallion looks like, and thenstepped into the arena with confidence andthat beautiful suspended movement of his.For those that knew and loved him, that day isa memory frozen in time as it was a glimpseof what might have been and what shouldhave been for the beautiful stallion.

He was puppy dog gentle, and gavemany a first ride to children and people newto the sport; but with an experienced rider hewas a powerful mount, and had he not beeninjured in the shoulder as a yearling, he nodoubt would have made his mark on the trackor in an Olympic sport.

He lived out his days surrounded by hismares and his best friend, Hoover the don-key, and he let his people know when it wastime to say goodbye. His sun-warmed irides-cent red coat was now a bit tear stained, butto the end he remained glorious in his beingand appearance. We are better for knowinghim, and we give thanks for the time we hadwith this magnificent horse. !

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KEITH LITTLE served as a Navajo Code Talker with the US Marine Corps fromDecember of 1943 until after the war. He fought in numerous engagements ofWWII, including battles in the Marshall Islands, Sai Pan, and Iwo Jima. Likemost of the Navajo Code Talkers, he wasn’t aware of the significance of his con-tribution to the war effort until much later in life. It was only then that he under-stood the importance of documenting their story for posterity. In conversationabout his hopes for the new museum, he speaks with certitude of his desire toteach the younger generations of the importance of striving for excellence and ofserving above and beyond the call of duty. Promoting a greater understanding ofthe Navajo culture, traditions and way of life is a cause he also holds dear. Whenasked why he chose to go to war, he answers simply: “[because] the Japanesemade a sneak attack on the US,” adding that he wanted “to protect our people,land and country.”

TEDDY DRAPER SR. joined the Marines on November 3rd, 1943, and wassoon after sent overseas as a Navajo Code Talker serving in many harrowingcampaigns. In the assault on Iwo Jima, he was wounded in the face and leg bymortar fire but continued to fight on with his comrades. He landed with the 28thMarines on Green Beach and, at one point, bravely ran through heavy enemy fireand back again to retrieve lost equipment needed to open lines of communica-tion. It was a distinguished act for which he was promoted. Sadly, he lost manyfriends during this bloody struggle. Teddy Draper Sr. later went on to serve inoccupied Japan, where he became proficient in his third language, which he stillremembers today. He was discharged May 16th, 1946.

BILL TOLEDO was a Navajo Code Talker for three years from October 1942 toOctober 1945. He served in many engagements including the Battle ofBougainville in the British Solomon Islands, and the battles for Guam and IwoJima. On the island of Guam, while filling in as a messenger, he narrowlyescaped sniper bullets by means of some quick footwork. Impressed by hismoves, some of the Marines jokingly asked about his football career before thewar. Not all Marines were so jovial, though. On one occasion, while marchingthrough the jungle, he was mistaken for a Japanese soldier and taken prisoner.After being marched back to headquarters at gunpoint, he was assigned a body-guard to avoid future misunderstandings. Although the danger is gone, he stillgets calls to this day making sure he’s okay. Bill Toledo feels it is important toshare experiences like his with new generations so that they may understand thecost of freedom and the sacrifices which were made on their behalf.

SAMUEL TSO When Samuel saw the tiny island of Iwo Jima for the first time,he thought US forces would be able to take it in one day. Even as they landed,the beaches were dead quiet. Only after they had made their way up the beachdid the heavily entrenched Japanese open fire. It was not long before the youngMarine reconsidered his first assessment. It would take more than a month ofbrutal combat before the island was secured. Samuel Tso bravely served with theUS Marine Corps from February 13th, 1943 to March 29th, 1946. Even now,some 65 years later, he recalls with clarity the experience of crouching in bombcraters for cover, unable to ascertain the direction of fire until comrades on theopposite side of the crater were killed. Hearing his experiences, it becomes quiteclear why the Navajo Code Talkers Museum & Veterans’ Project is so meaning-ful to him. It will be a place where the Code Talkers can tell their own harrowingstories and help promote the cause of peace.

It is a great American story that is stilllargely unknown—the story of a group ofyoung Navajo men who answered the call

of duty, who performed a service no one elsecould, and in the process became great war-riors and patriots. Their unbreakable codesaved thousands of lives and helped endWWII.

Background and BootcampDuring the early months of WWII, Japaneseintelligence experts broke every code theUS forces devised. They were able to antici-

pate American actions at an alarming rate.With plenty of fluent English speakers attheir disposal, they sabotaged messagesand issued false commands to ambushAllied troops. To combat this, increasinglycomplex codes were initiated. AtGuadalcanal, military leaders finally com-plained that sending and receiving thesecodes required hours of encryption anddecryption—up to two and a half hours for asingle message. They rightly argued the mil-itary needed a better way to communicate.

When Phillip Johnston, a civilian living

in California learned of the crisis, he had theanswer. As the son of a Protestant mission-ary, Johnston had grown up on the Navajoreservation and was one of less than 30 out-siders fluent in their difficult language. Herealized that since it had no alphabet andwas almost impossible to master withoutearly exposure, the Navajo language hadgreat potential as an indecipherable code.After an impressive demonstration to topcommanders, he was given permission tobegin a Navajo Code Talker test program.

Their elite unit was formed in early

1942 when the first 29 Navajo Code Talkerswere recruited by Johnston. Although thecode was modified and expanded through-out the war, this first group was the one toconceive it. Accordingly, they are oftenreferred to reverently as the "original 29".Many of these enlistees were just boys; mosthad never been away from home before.Often lacking birth certificates, it was impos-sible to verify ages. After the war it was dis-covered that recruits as young as 15 and asold as 35 had enlisted. Age notwithstanding,

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Hello, my name is Bill Jackson. I am cur-rently president of the newly incorpo-rated C bar J Horsehaven Rescue, no.

16999766. We were approved by the State ofArizona on August 15, 2011, as a non-profitrescue.

In early 2007, Cindy Jackson and myselffounded the rescue and the C bar JHorsehaven Rescue opened its doors inhopes of rescuing horses that have beenabused, neglected, starved, or were just nolonger wanted by anyone anywhere and forany reason. Since then, horses have come tous from all over northern Arizona, fromSeligman to Yucca and all points in between.

My wife and myself have taken in up to40 horses and have been successful in adopt-ing out many. But we are small and this hasbeen done with little or no funding exceptfrom our pockets. Sometimes good peoplehave helped, like Debbie and Mike Gleasonfrom Milton, Washington, and a few others.But even those good people have discoveredthat just feeding horses is a major expense.Additionally, there are vets, medical supplies,housing, horse safe panels as well as manyother items needed to sustain these magnifi-cent creatures.

Our goal has been to rescue as manyhorses as we can with no questions asked ofthe donors. We have a horse (Elvis) that waspunched and starved. We have two that arehalf blind. One was blinded by violenceenacted upon it by its owner with a two-by-four. We have one (Peaches) whose only

source of food was peanut butter sandwiches.When we cleansed her poor digestive sys-tem, she produced forty pounds of mud fromher intestines. We even have a beautiful flea-bitten grey that didn’t know what hay was.What folks need to be aware of in this countyis that domesticated horse neglect and abuseis on the rise. We have taken in six horses inthe last two months. Again, we ask no ques-tions.

Now our funds have run out and my wifeand I have one week's worth of food left. Nohorse that we currently have has seen a vetbecause we found that vets won't come toDolan Springs because of costs. So we carefor them the best way that we can. We nowneed the public's help. It seems the communi-ties that we serve are turning a deaf ear toour plight. So I ask, what will it take for thepublic to realize that these problems affect usall as a community of horse lovers? We wishto invite anyone to our small center and youwill see for yourselves what we need and areasking for. We hide nothing and our gates areopen.

Here are some photos of some of thehorses we have received. Please be advisedthat these pictures are very graphic and mayoffend some. The little red sorrel is MissyKateland. The black filly is Peaches. The bigmustang is Elvis. Thank you !

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On July 30, Erin Bolster of SwanMountain Outfitters was guiding eight clientson a horse ride on the Flathead NationalForest between West Glacier and HungryHorse,Montana.

“It’s the shortest ride we offer,” she saidWednesday, recalling the incident. “We’dalready led two trips that morning. It’s alwaysbeen a very routine hour-long loop, untilthatday.” The group included a family of sixplus a vacationing Illinois man, who’d bookedthe trip for his 8-year-old son’s first horse rid-ingexperience.

The young boy was riding Scout, asteady obedient mount, following directlybehind Bolster, who was leading the group onTonk, a burly 10-year-old white horse of ques-tionable lineage. Tonk isn’t the typical trailmount. Best anyone knows, he’s the result ofcross-breeding a quarter horse with aPercheron – a draft horse. Bolster is 5-foot-10,yet she relies on her athleticism to climb intothe saddle aboardTonk. “He was one of thehorses we lease from Wyoming and bring inevery year,” Bolster said, noting that she’dpicked him from the stable in May to be hersfor theseason. “He’s a very large horse – 18hands high. That intimidates a lot of riders.But I’ve always loved big horses. He’s kind ofhigh-strung and spooky, the largest of ourwrangling horses. I like a horse with a lot ofspirit, and I was really glad to be on him

thatday.” Bolster has accumulated a wealth of

experience on and around horses of nationaland even world class. She started riding at 4years old, became a pro trainer at 15, gradu-ated from high school at 16 in Roanoke, Va.,and ran a riding academy for severalyears.Seeking a more laid-back lifestyle, she wran-gled in Costa Rica and the DominicanRepublic before moving to Whitefish threeyears ago to guide tourists during the sum-mer around Glacier National Park and skithrough winter. “It’s the country, the moun-tains and the idea of seeing a lot of wildlifethat appealed to me, ironically enough,”shesaid.

Bolster quickly racked upbear experi-ence, too, although until July 30, it was alwaysat adistance.

“At the peak of the season, we were see-ing bears daily,” she said. “The wranglersname them so we can let each other knowwhere they are. Usually the bears just keepfeeding in the distance or they run awaywhen we come. Just seeing them is a treat forus and our guests.” Because they guidearound Glacier Park, bear awareness is partof the preparation wranglers get when hiredby Swan Moun tainOutfitters. “We go over alot of wildlife scenarios in our training,”Bolster said. “We learn to watch our horsesfor signals of possible trouble so we cansteer clear.” That’s the key, she said: Avoidtrouble with a moose or abear. “We can’t usepepper spray when we’re riding because thatcould blind the horse,” she said. “And using agun would spook the horses and probablyproduce more danger thansafety.” That’s howshe went to work that day: a young but sea-soned pro rider on a new, huge and spiritedhorse, unarmed in the wilderness witheightdudes.

“It was a pleasant ride until we camearound a corner on the trail and my horsestopped firm and wouldn’t move,” Bolstersaid. “He never refuses to go, so that caught

my attention quick.” But not fast enough toavoid the spike white-tailed deer that burstout of the brush and glanced off Tonk’s leftfrontshoulder. As Tonk spun from the impact,Bolster saw a huge grizzly bear crashingthrough the forest right at the group in pursuitof the deer. Horses panicked and guestsgrabbed saddle horns for the ride oftheirlives. “No amount of training could keepa horse from running from a 700-poundcharging bear,” shesaid. Seven of the horsessensed the danger, scrambled around andgalloped back on the trail toward thebarn.But Scout bolted perpendicular to the trailinto the timber packing the 8-year-oldboy.“The deer peeled off and joined the horsessprinting down the trail,” Bolster said. “So thebear just continued running right past me. I’mnot sure the bear even knew the roles hadchanged, but now it was chasing a horseinstead of adeer.” The grizzly was zeroed inon Scout and the boy – the isolated prey inthe woods. Adding to the drama, the boy’sfather, an experienced rider, could not con-vince his horse that it was a good plan to rideto his son’srescue. “The last thing he saw overhis shoulder as his horse ran away was thegrizzly chasing his boy,” Bolstersaid.

With the bear on Scout’s heels, Tonk’sinstinct was to flee with the group of horses.But Tonk responded to Bolster’s heels in hisribs as she spun the big fella around. Theywheeled out of a 360 and bolted into the treesto wedge between the predator and theprey.“The boy was bent over, feet out of the stir-rups, clutching the saddle horn and thehorse’s neck,” she said. “That kept him fromhitting a treelimb. “But all I could think aboutwas the boy falling off in the path of thatgriz-zly. “I bent down, screamed and yelled, butthe bear was growling and snarling and stay-ing very focused onScout. “As it tried to cir-cle back toward Scout, I realized I had to getTonk to square off and face the bear. We hadto get the bear to acknowledgeus. “We did.We got its attention – and the bearcharged.

“So I charged at thebear.” Did she think twiceabout that? “I had no hesitation, honestly,”Bolster said. “Nothing in my body was goingto let that little boy get hurt by that bear. Thatwasn’t anoption.”

Tonk was on the samepage. With a ton ofhorse, boulder-size hooves and a fire-breath-ing blond thundering at it, the bear camewithin about 10 feet before skittering off tothe side. But it quickly angled to make yetanother stab at getting to Scout and the boy –who had just fallen to theground. “Tonk and Ihad to go at the bear a third time before wefinally hazed him away,” she said. “The boyhad landed in some bear grass and was OK.Scout was standingnearby.” Bolster gatheredthe boy up with her on Tonk, grabbed Scout’slead and trotted down thetrail. “The boy wasin shock,” she said. “I looked back and couldsee the bear had continued to go away

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We at A-Schuerr-Thing Horse Training And Riding Lesson Facility are extremely proud of our students and horses in trainingfor their showing at the Mohave County Fair Open Horse Show held September 18th. You all have worked so hard and itshowed! Congratulations to Josephine Brandt on Hutch in lead-line, Kinsley Gordon on Dreamer in lead-line, and Kyrstn Wiseon Denny in lead-line class with each student earning blue ribbons and trophies. Leonna Brandt was riding Dreamer in theWalk/Trot under 10 class where she earned a 2nd place ribbon. Lindsey Schuerr earned Reserve Champion Western All Aroundon Dreamer owned by Mary Ogden. Lindsey also earned Reserve Champion English All Around on Hutch owned by EmilieMcGerty, and earned a third place ribbon in the Trail class 14-19 year old division riding Denny owned by Thom McGerty.Lindsey Schuerr also earned the 4-H Grand Champion Senior Round Robin Showman. We are looking forward to seeing every-one compete in next years Open Horse Show. Kassie Schueer of A-Schuerr-Thing Horse Training And Riding Lessons

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they easily bore the rigors of basic training,thanks to their upbringing in the southwest-ern desert.

The Code 7 Code TalkingThe code they created at Camp

Pendleton was as ingenious as it was effec-tive. It originated as approximately 200terms—growing to over 600 by war's end—and could communicate in 20 seconds whattook coding machines of the time 30 minutesto do. It consisted of native terms that wereassociated with the respective military termsthey resembled. For example, the Navajoword for turtle meant "tank," and a dive-bomber was a "chicken hawk." To supple-ment those terms, words could be spelledout using Navajo terms assigned to individ-ual letters of the alphabet—the selection ofthe Navajo term being based on the first let-ter of the Navajo word's English meaning.For instance, "Wo-La-Chee" means "ant,"and would represent the letter "A". In thisway the Navajo Code Talkers could quicklyand concisely communicate with each otherin a manner even uninitiated Navajos couldnot understand.

Once trained, the Navajo Code Talkerswere sent to Marine divisions in the Pacifictheater of WWII. Despite some initial skepti-cism by commanding officers, they quicklygained a distinguished reputation for theirremarkable abilities. In the field, they werenot allowed to write any part of the codedown as a reference. They became livingcodes, and even under harried battle condi-tions, had to rapidly recall every word withutmost precision or risk hundreds or thou-sands of lives. In the battle for Iwo Jima, inthe first 48 hours alone, they coded over 800transmissions with perfect accuracy. Theirheroism is widely acknowledged as thelynchpin of victory in the pivotal conflict.

Coming HomeAfter the war, the Navajo Code Talkers

returned home as heroes without a heroes'welcome. Their code had been so success-ful, it was considered a military secret tooimportant to divulge. They remained silentheroes until more than two decades later.Even after declassification of the code in1968, it took many years before any officialrecognition was given. In 2001, nearly 60years after they created their legendarycode, the Navajo Code Talkers finallyreceived well-deserved CongressionalMedals of Honor.

Now, in their 80's and 90's, only a few ofthese silent heroes remain. Many of their sto-ries have yet to be documented for posteri-ty. At the Navajo Code Talker Association, weare working to create a lasting record of theNavajo Code Talker legacy. Help us pre-serve the greatest stories never told.

The FoundationFounded in 2009 by a small group of

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My father, Dion Hartman, had been at camp for a few days setting up and doing a little hunting of his own. I had just got-ten to town Saturday morning from being on a forest fire in Salmon, ID. I made it to elk camp around 4pm Sunday nighton the 25th of September and my father was talking to me about a bull elk that had been walking around camp keeping mydad awake the last couple of nights bugling. I jokingly said "well let’s go shut him up" and about 5:45 p.m. we walked outof camp across the road and when we got about 80 yards out of camp we heard the bull bugle so my father proceeded tocall back to him. We did so for about 10 min. and each time the bull got closer and through the thick trees I could see hisantlers approaching closer and closer. My father pushed back up into a tree for cover. The bull came cautiously walkingup to about 40 yards just out of view of a clean shot. I pulled back as he pushed forward through the trees and he stoppedagain as I stood there holding my Mathews Adrenaline at full draw. It crossed my mind that I might lose him cause I can'thold this bow much longer and my father was whispering "wait...wait...wait..." Just then he took 3 more steps into the clear-ing in front of us, I aimed and pulled the trigger on my release,....THWAP! It hit him in the side about 6 p.m. above hisheart and he turned and bounded into the woods... I turned to my dad with a face full of excitement only to see the samereaction in his and about 20 min. later we had tracked him back into the woods and there he slept under a tree... My firstharvest of a Bull Elk with my bow.

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through he woods, but I had another five or 10minutes of riding before I got back withthe!group.”

Not until she reunited with her riders –all OK and standing in various stages of con-fusion with their horses – did she startto! shake. “I looked at Tonk, and he was wetwith sweat and shaking, too,” she! said. Shewas especially concerned for the boy’s father,who probably suffered the most terror inthe!ordeal. “He was fine, and I got my biggesttip of the season,” Bolster said. “My biggesthope is that the boy isn’t discouraged fromriding. This was a one-in-a-million!event.”

For the next few days, the outfitter shutdown the trail rides and Bolster joined otherwranglers and a federal grizzly bear expertto ride horses through the area looking forthe!bear. “They tracked it for a long way andconcluded that it kept going out of the area,”she said. “Judging from the tracks and mydescription of how high the bear came up onTonk, the grizzly expert estimated it weighed700-750!pounds. “This was a case of us beingin the wrong place as a bear was already inthe act of chasing its natural prey. He wasprobably more persistent because he was

really!hungry.”Bolster and the other wranglers vowed

to have bear spray on their belts to make surethey can defend their guests during breakson the! ground. “But when you’re riding, thehorse is your best protection, if you can stayon,” she!said. “Some of the horses I’ve riddenwould have absolutely refused to do whatTonk did; others would have thrown me off inthe process. Some horses can never over-come their flight-animal instinct to run!away.”In those minutes of crisis, the big lug of mon-grel mount proved his mettle in a test few trailhorses will face in their!careers.

Tonk’s grit moved Bolster. She wasn’tabout to send him back to Wyoming with theother leased!horses. “Two weeks ago, I closedthe deal and bought him,” Bolster said as shewas wrapping up her 2011 wrangling!season.“After what he did that day, he had tobe!mine.” !

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