This year we will teach 8 Semper Fi Fund members how to pack mules and horses into the mountains, conduction mounted tracking of large game animals, and then photo shoot the animals for lasting memories of a time well spent in the wilderness. We'll cook our own meals over the fire in Dutch ovens, and [...]
This is a combined JMHP/Semper Fi Fund Apprenticeship Program clinic that will teach eight JMHP/SFF Apprenticeship Program members spur making, leather working, and silver engraving skills. This is an exciting opportunity to make your own spurs, buckles, and spur straps under the tutelage of top Texas spur makers and leather smiths in the small community of Centerville, TX. That's [...]
This is our first year riding on the gorgeous 44,000 acre McKinley Ranch just west of Oklahoma City. JMHP riders will assist the McKinley family with their Spring Works consisting of gathering the cattle; sorting, inoculating, castrating, roping, and dragging the calves to the fire for branding. Our riders will participate in every aspect of this timeless cowboy tradition.
This is the JMHP's foundation riding clinic and the very best way to learn basic horsemanship and cow working skills under the guidance of top horsemanship trainers in Mississippi. This is the fourth year that the Mississippi Quarter Horse Association has sponsored the JMHP providing our riders top horses and instruction to ensure their success. Riders [...]
We’ll bring 12 of our JMHP riders to Alpine, TX, located in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, for 5 fun filled days of horsemanship and cowboying on the famed 06 Ranch. We’ll stay at the Girl Scout’s Camp Mite Peak located in a wonderful canyon with rocky walls and cabins nestled along the creek [...]
This is our third year on the historic McKinley Ranch with owners Marc and Donne (yes, wife Donne's dad wanted a boy) have invited us to help with their spring branding on their 120,000-acre ranch near Socorro, NM. Each day JMHP riders will get up before dawn, catch and saddle their horses, ride out to [...]
This is our sixth clinic at the historic Double Rafter Cattle Ranch near Sheridan, WY. This clinic is for JMHP riders to put all the skills they have learned in previous clinics into practical application on a working ranch in the magnificent Bighorn Mountains, WY. Folks, it just doesn't get any better or more cowboy [...]
We are super excited about this inaugural clinic on the Peterson’s magnificent Troublesome Valley Ranch (TVR) near Kremmling, CO. Every Spring the TVR drives its cattle into the Medicine Bow National Forest for summer grazing in the high (8000’) mountain meadows that wind throughout this portion of the Rocky Mountains. In the Fall, the TVR’s cowboys ride the high country gathering the cattle and then drive the herd out of the mountains to the ranch’s lower-elevation hay meadows where [...]
This is a monthly JMHP clinic for its advanced riders that are dedicated to really improving their horsemanship and cow working skills. The clinics are held monthly at the Horse of the Sun Ranch in Pine Valley, CA with master horseman Bob King instructing. Skills taught include: horsemanship, ranch roping, colt starting, equine massage, groundwork [...]
Our fourth return to the Orme Ranch located halfway between Phoenix and Flagstaff in the foothills of the Tonto Basin Wilderness area. This clinic features basic horsemanship and cow working for the first two days in a large arena and rugged terrain of the desert southwest. On the clinic’s third and fourth days, we’ll assist the Orme Ranch manager and [...]
Since 2014, the JMHP has taught rawhide braiding of horse tack to riders attending the California Cavvy sessions. Several riders have shown an interest to pursue this craft beyond what can be taught at night during our horsemanship clinics. If time allows and rawhide strings can be made prior to this clinic, we’ll offer a week-long dedicated [...]
The Working Ranch Cowboy Association (WRCA)  is a non-profit organization whose mission is to "promote ranching on a National and International level and to preserve the lifestyle of the working ranch cowboy.” This is its 23rd annual Championship Rodeo that brings in the best ranch rodeo teams from competition throughout the year to compete for top awards and the [...]
