{"id":2111,"date":"2014-12-13T08:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T15:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:29","slug":"tom-dorrance-a-most-extraordinary-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Tom Dorrance: A Most Extraordinary Horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/td01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2112\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/td01.jpg\" alt=\"td01\" width=\"734\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/td01.jpg 734w, https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/td01-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/a>Tom Dorrance: A Most Extraordinary Horseman<br \/>\nby Jim Overstreet, copyright 1994, published by permission of the author<\/p>\n<p>Thirty or more unbroke horses milled restlessly in a large corral at Cow Camp, summer headquarters on Montana&#8217;s Flying D ranch. Boots Shell, the manager, asked a small, dark-haired horseman what kind of horse he&#8217;d to like ride when he roped the broncs. &#8220;Something that&#8217;s never been handled much would be best,&#8221; he said. The other cowboys, who had only met the quiet man the night before listened incredulously. It was the summer of 1964 and Tom Dorrance was already fifty-four years old.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernfolklife.org\/gift-shop-categories\/books\/cowboy-western-culture\/tom-dorrance-more-than-a-horseman-by-dorrance-and-saint-ryan-detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2113\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/dorrance.jpg\" alt=\"dorrance\" width=\"150\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Some of the horses waiting to be ridden were five, six, and seven year olds that for one reason or another had never been handled. Although their breeding was a mixture of good Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse blood, they&#8217;d spent most of their lives just eating grass in the big ranch pastures. They were corralled once or twice a year with the riding horses only to be turned out again untouched. Several others had been broken &#8220;at,&#8221; that is someone had attempted to break them but hadn&#8217;t been successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikethomashorsemen.com\/uncommon-horse-sense\/tom-dorrance-a-most-extraordinary-horseman-part-1\" target=\"_blank\">(Read Part 1<\/a>) \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/mikethomashorsemen.com\/www\/uncommon-horse-sense\/tom-dorrance-a-most-extraordinary-horseman-part-2\" target=\"_blank\">(Read Part 2)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Dorrance: A Most Extraordinary Horseman by Jim Overstreet, copyright 1994, published by permission of the author Thirty or more unbroke horses milled restlessly in a large corral at Cow Camp, summer headquarters on Montana&#8217;s Flying D ranch. Boots Shell, the manager, asked a small, dark-haired horseman what kind of horse he&#8217;d to like ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}