DVD - Montana Invitational Horse Stampede
DVD documentary film of Montana Horses Annual Horse Roundup andDrive, Video by Expedition Films. Film length 60 minutes. The gathering of four hundred head of horses, scattered across thousands of acres of montana mountain range and driving them thirty-five miles is documented as America's last great western horse drive. Twenty riders chase, race and pace this thundering herd from their winter pasture, across open prairies, down country roads, through two western towns and over the Horseshoe Hills to the Mantle Ranch. It is the enduring and comic story of Kail and Renee Mangle, a hardy ranch couple who have forged a life and bond with their horses, while preserving traditional cowboy values in the new American West. Accompanied by the music of Red Steagall and the Gallatin Valley Junior Fiddlers, this western tale encompasses all aspects of cowboy life, from camping on the drive trail, to singing, dancing and telling wild tales around the evening fire.
Montana Invitational Horse Stampede. Annual Horse Roundup and Drive in Three Forks, Montana with Montana Horses at the Mantle Ranch. One hour documentary by Expedition Films, seen on PBS and RFDTV. Kail Mantle, Renee Daniels-Mantle and crew of cowboys at the Mantle Ranch during the Annual Spring Horse Drive. The last great American horse drive, from the largest family of saddle horses in the world. Funny and touching interviews, thrilling footage of hundreds of horses as they are gathered from their winter range and trailed through Three Forks back to the ranch. If you you the days of old west livetsock drives are over, think again. Breathtaking scenes of winter, fall, spring, and summer horse drives on the ranch and during the roundup and drive. Excellent instructional video for participants on the drive chronicles how to move horses and have one bunch of four hundred instead of four hundred bunches of one!
