Amarillo Paper
I believe this story was mentioned here a while ago. Four Aggies trained 16 Mustangs and then drove them from Mexico to Canada. There was a documentary made, and it's apparently receiving good reviews. The linked article is from the Amarillo paper, as two of the four lived in Amarillo at some point.
Can't say I'm on board with the preservation of feral horses, but it was a heck of an excursion.
I believe this story was mentioned here a while ago. Four Aggies trained 16 Mustangs and then drove them from Mexico to Canada. There was a documentary made, and it's apparently receiving good reviews. The linked article is from the Amarillo paper, as two of the four lived in Amarillo at some point.
Can't say I'm on board with the preservation of feral horses, but it was a heck of an excursion.
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If there's one thing Ben Thamer and Ben Masters want Saturday night's Amarillo audience to take away from the documentary "Unbranded," it's not about the beauty of wild mustangs or the issue of horse adoption and conservation.
Not at all.
"If there's something you really want to do I'm not saying go sail around the world but take the time to do it while you can," Thamer said.
"Anything you can dream up, you can do. Don't be afraid to go and do big things. Follow your passion for adventure."
Thamer and Masters, both of Amarillo, were half of the four young cowboys who did what's never been done trained 16 wild mustangs in 2013 and then took them 3,000 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border to Canada, and did so in six exhausting months.
That experience, with its literal and figurative peaks and valleys, is chronicled in the well-received documentary, which has its Amarillo premiere at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts.