The Stare Down

Oil on Barnwood
22″ x 26 1/2″
$1300
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Crowder Horse Ranch
A veteran of the Viet Nam War, Gary, a Montana native, traveled from Colorado to Montana where he was hired on in 1968 as full time horse trainer for Bud and Bobby Kramer on the ranch they had established three miles northeast of Billings. Raising bucking, cutting and quarter horses with the Hanging A Diamond brand along with long-horn cattle and sheep, Bud and Bobby knew they had found a remarkable wrangler in Gary. He knew he had found his life-long career and a friend and advocate in the Kramers. She adopted Gary who now, with his wife, Linda, run the ranch and training stable. They live in what once was an old school house for the homesteaders’ children in the Billings area.

Some of Gary’s many accomplishments as a well known competitive rider, horse trainer, and breeder include 1975 Midland Empire Open Horse Show Western Pleasure Stakes Champion; 1977 Montana Wyoming Cutting Horse Association High Point Open Cutting Horse and Area 4 Open Champion Cutting Horse; 1981 Intermountain Quarter Horse Association High Point Junior Cutting Horse; 1982 Montana Reined Cowhorse Cutting Horse Derby Champion; 1982 Cow Country Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion; 1987 Montana Quarter Horse Triangle Association Snaffle Bit Reining Futruity Champion and Milk River Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion.