Harness Racing - Horse Racing - Dog Racing - Equestrian
Jul. 07, 1953 - School For Cowboys - In The Wild (English) West: Ten youngsters one stetson, half a dozen horses and a lases spice are learning to be real cowboys in the wide popemn spaces of the West - But it's the West of the England, Dartmoor, to be exact, where ex-South American rancher Ross Salmon is to start a cattle range. He offered to teach ten British boys the business. He was persuaded to include one French boy. The started this week - on the same course that faces a raw ranch hand in the more publicised West: lasseing, cowboy riding, breaking bronces and learning the cowhand's jargon. The cowboy copers are the basic qualifications of a ranch hand from Dever to Devon. And Salmon wants four hands for the first Western-style ranch in Britain. He reanched for five years in th coinces plains and magdalens jugls of south America. he began with a 75-acre hill farm on the Exeter edge of dertmoor, and now he has just added the grazing rights of more then 25, 000 acres - abot 100 square miles - of moor from the agent of the duchy of cornwall, salmon beleves that it can support 1, 000 head of cattle to provide britain in with beef, if only it this ranched. Photo Shows John McMahon, from Country Monaghan, breaking in a wild pony at the Dartmoor school
