Posted on 09/19/2011 3:49:26 PM PDT by Baynative
Grizzlies are high profile this year.
A lingering winter and late berry crop kept bears in proximity to humans longer than normal, perhaps contributing to a stream of headlines about grizzlies killing people and people killing grizzlies.
Meanwhile, a young lady on a big horse charged out of the pack of grizzly stories near Glacier National Park. In a cloud of dust, the 25-year-old wrangler likely saved a boy’s life while demonstrating that skill, quick-thinking and guts sometimes are the best weapons against a head-on charging grizzly.
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As for Erin, I think I'm in love :) God Bless her
Can't beat that.
Because they pull Budweiser wagons?
I wonder what Tonk was prepared to do. Draft horses have sharp sledgehammers for hooves, and a lights-out kick even for a grizzly.
Yup - I coulda bin a contenda;)
Loved horses as a child - spent every summer riding ponies. It was my experience that the smaller the pony - the meaner they were. It’s a pony through 14.2 hands and a horse thereafter. We just had the one horse. LOL!!
6 feet high at the shoulder top. Zowie, that's big.
Judging from the picture, that would make her well over six feet tall...(?)
Also great trust between horse and rider...
True GRITS (Girl Raised in the South)! Gotta’ love them Southern girls.
I could picture that scene in a movie - a John Wayne movie. A whole lotta guts and talent from a young lady. Nice to see these kind of folks still exist.
“He was fine, and I got my biggest tip of the season,” Bolster said. “
I would hope so.
Any man who would be cheap after an experience like that should be horse whipped.
Put brown hair on that girl and you would have my step-daughter. She’s one of those “horse whisperer” types that can make animals do anything for her. Her wedding is next month and a team of six Percherons are taking her and the groom from the church to the reception! She had taken me to a couple of horse shows and I had never seen someone have to use a ladder to put a bridle on a horse before. I showed a picture of one of these monsters to a friend of mine and he called it a “Amish turbodiesel”!
Put brown hair on that girl and you would have my step-daughter. She’s one of those “horse whisperer” types that can make animals do anything for her. Her wedding is next month and a team of six Percherons are taking her and the groom from the church to the reception! She had taken me to a couple of horse shows and I had never seen someone have to use a ladder to put a bridle on a horse before. I showed a picture of one of these monsters to a friend of mine and he called it a “Amish turbodiesel”!
Each “hand” is equivalent to 4 inches, measured from the ground to the horse’s withers. (The highest point of a horse’s back) It does not include the height of of the horse from the neck up. IOW’s, the horse is 6 ft. tall at the withers.
I'm thinking the grizzly's lucky to escape unscathed.
What a match-up!
There is no way the horse in the photos is Tonks. Way too short... We have 3 Clydesdales at the barn we board at, and they are around 18 hands, and they are HUGE animals! Their withers are over my head and their hind ends are higher! (And they have wonderful temperaments.)
This must be a background photo on the girl.
Great story!
My coward horses and mules would’ve been in the next county as soon as they smelled bear.
Wow. LOVE this story.
I was thinking the same thing, maybe Tonk’s in the shop for a lookover as they wrote the article. His head’s the right size, but she’s 5’10 so his withers should be at or above her head.
If you ever get the chance, catch the Bud Clydesdales park the trailer at the Rodeo. Amazing.
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