Contributors

Michelle Anderson started her career as an editor at Appaloosa Journal and later worked as associate editor of John Lyons’ Perfect Horse. Since 1999, she’s earned multiple awards from American Horse Publications and has written for the industry’s leading magazines. She currently works in marketing and takes the occasional gig writing about horses and the Western lifestyle. She and her husband live on a small ranch outside Bend, Oregon, and enjoy horse camping and trail riding.

Based in Montana, Ryan T. Bell chronicles cowboy life and backcountry experiences in the Rocky Mountains. As a cowboy journalist, he's ridden with the gauchos of Argentina, the nomads of Mongolia, and the comrade cowboys of Russia. Learn more about his travels at:ryantbell.com.

Photographer, writer and professional tumbleweed Lynn Donaldson grew up on her family’s farm in central Montana. She credits her love of gravel roads, cowboy diners and “truckin’ songs” to her parents, whose idea of “vacation” was hitting the highway in their giant Oldsmobile. “I learned early on that blasting across the countryside, tasting local food and collecting handmade souvenirs is the fastest way to get to the heart and soul of a region,” she says. Donaldson lives in Livingston, Montana, with her husband and three children. The stories she writes and shoots for magazines such as Via, Travel + Leisure, Sunsetand Men’s Journaloften focus on local food and art. “The more back road, the better.”

Kathy McCraine grew up on a ranch in Arizona and has been involved with ranching all her life. After graduating from the University of Arizona, she wrote for and edited several cattle and horse publications, then founded one of the first advertising agencies to specialize in livestock. Most recently, she authored Cow Country Cooking: Recipes and Tales from Northern Arizona’s Historic Ranches. Kathy and her husband, Swayze, own and operate Campwood Cattle Company near Prescott, Arizona, where they raise commercial cattle and registered Quarter Horses.

Jameson Parker is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir An Accidental Cowboy(St. Martin’s Press) and the editor of the popular anthology To Absent Friends (Willow Creek Press). In keeping with his theory that any man who fails to live beyond his means suffers from a total lack of imagination, he lives with more horses, dogs, and cats than he can afford, and with a patient and long-suffering wife, the former actress Darleen Carr.