Wrangling Wild Horses in the Mountains of Montana | Short Film Showcase

[Music] growing up I was definitely the most interested in the ranch lifestyle [Music] from the young age I just really enjoyed riding horses and be in the outdoors making lots of money isn't my priority I would rather live in a beautiful place and do the things that I love my name is Cameron Kelsey third generation dude rancher I was born and raised here on the nine quarter circle ranch outside of Bozeman Montana we raised our horses in the Clone World style of horsemanship the horses spend year-round outside in the elements fending for themselves and grazing off the land and it's pretty damn tough for a horse out there these elements so we move them down to lower elevations in the wintertime and they spend the winter months down there grazing on the range in the springtime we gather them up to let them back up to the ranch there's an energy in the air that morning when you open the gate mostly the horses they know it's time to go to the summer pasture we're just ready and charging and I spent a long winter and nobody's ridden and the horses haven't been conditioned it's like sitting down most of the layer and then open the gates and run in a marathon [Music] it's tough to kick split out everybody you could easily throw all those horses on a truck and trailer and not ever happy on a horse at all we do the roundup because it's a tradition it's more about the camaraderie than it is about the practicality of it when you got a herd of hundred and twenty horses that you've raised and bred you can kind of see the little cliques that they get into each horse has its own personality some are better at wrangling some are better at leading a trail ride they know me from a stranger they're very smart animal I prefer to be up here and and being a solitary man I guess I don't like to depend on other people to do things so if I need food I go hunting if I need you know a bed I build it I'm not really a cowboy I have more of a horseman the way I would phrase it you got there right across the country you had nobody to bug you it's just you and the horse and and the herd in front of you not many people get to do that sort of thing it's always a little unsettling yeah six or eight Wranglers that have never been on your horses we don't know how they ride a lot of responsibility picking off horses that they're riding and which putting them on so that's what makes me more nervous it's making sure that they're safe and we're still getting the job done I remember one morning I'm riding a Colt one time really young horse had only been ridden four or five times prior we were going up the trail and there was a log that had a fork in it he just happened to step in the wrong spot and ended up just breaking his leg I was still on his back he's just laying there all tangled up in this log and I happen to have a gun at the time [Music] three minutes ago I was riding this horse and now he's did it it hit me pretty hard it was kind of like wow what happened there [Music] yeah it was it was hard to deal with uh it was you know it was actually a horse that I had like two or three days before that kind of talk to my dad about keeping him as my own horse and and then I said you know everything comes and goes [Music] I love this lifestyle and I wouldn't say it makes me more of a man it does it depends on your definition of what being a man is Mother Nature doesn't really care if you're Camryn Kelsey or the president it's still going to do whatever is gonna do people get really big egos I mean you're nothing you're just another man doing what every other man before you is done no no my dad I mean I know where I'm at in my place and what I do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you you [Music]

Channel: National Geographic

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Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 18 2018