BUTTE, Mont. — Junior high students at Butte Central Middle School learned a technique in their Monday afternoon history class that dates back over 100 years. Charlie O’Leary, a member of the Upper ...

KALISPELL, Mont. -- On a summer evening, three horse packers rode into the Bob Marshall Wilderness north of Lincoln to pack out a trail crew. The crew had been packed into the wilderness by a ...

Packing instructor Bob Hoverson shows participants how to properly load a mule at a horse packing clinic at Anipro Event Center in Absarokee on Sunday, April 2. BRONTE WITTPENN, Gazette Staff Jordon ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Volunteers and service rangers in southwest Montana are training on a skill that dates back hundreds of years -- horse packing. Organizers say the advantage of horse packing is better ...

The Bill Van Learn How to Pack Stock Clinic will return to Clovis on Saturday, March 26. Now in its sixth year, the annual event will feature both mule and horse packing lessons and competitions, with ...

A few days ago, when the rain continued to fall and there was nothing much to do, I was checking my e-mails and discovered a video on the Savage Arms site. It was quite informative, but at the end ...

Hannah (left), Brady (middle) and Kimber Boll have been putting their horse packing skills to good use, teaching others as part of 4H and Northwest Montana Back Country Horsemen projects. (Jeremy ...

Demonstrations with horses and equipment will be proved by Mitchell Jackson, who is a seasoned horseman and a native of Sanpete. Besides being a farrier for over 40 years, he has been packing and ...

My buddy and I have talked about doing a 100-mile horse packing trip for the last 4-5 years. We were going to have someone drop us off and then pick us up on the other side of the world so to speak a ...