What could be fancier than a posh leather Brooks saddle? A custom Brooks saddle, of course, and that's just what you can get from Kara Ginther, leather carver extraordinaire. Kara will take your ...

LOVELAND — Rusty May bends over the bare bones of a future horse saddle, unwraps a long strip of leather that has been wrapped around the pommel like a tourniquet, takes up a maple dowel and begins a ...

When you run your hands across one of Chas Weldon's custom-made saddles, you're handling a practical, functional work of art that's meant to be used, not propped up in an art gallery or displayed in a ...

MONTICELLO, Minn. - Give the guy on 101st Street credit for sticking to his story. If he’s wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat, then, by gosh, he’s living on a ranch. “100 by 200 foot lot, no ...

The bench of a workingman shows unfinished belts, an Iron Maiden CD and a dirt-brown, relaced catcher's mitt, Rawlings' Johnny Bench model. Above it are hand tools, all wood and blade lined in ...

Nancy Martiny has made it in a man's world. She started making western saddles as a hobby but there's now a three-year waiting list of people lined up to buy her designs. Martiny builds her saddles ...