After completing his BS in Animal Science at Montana State University in 1988, Bob took over as Purebred Manager for Shelton Ranches, a beautiful place just outside of Bozeman, Montana. Formerly know as the Flying D Ranch, the Shelton Ranch has since been purchased by Ted Turner and is no longer a working cattle ranch.
Turning horses out after a long work-day.
Regularly, professional photographers would visit to capture the life of the working cowboy.
Movie makers also liked to film the working cowboy. This picture was taken while Bob was on set dressed and geared out in circa 1880's cowboy dress and gear.
Branding wagon camp on the Yellowtail Ranch in 1984. The Yellowtail Ranch was located on the Montana-Wyoming border near the Bighorn River.
Dragging a calf to the branding fire on the Padlock Ranch in 1983. The Padlock headquarters is located in Ranchester, Wyoming, but covers a wide swath of land (475,000 acres) both in Montana and Wyoming.
Bob and Lisa on one of their first dates, a horseback ride into the beautiful Spanish Peaks of Montana.
Good friends with Bob at the Green Ranch on the Madison River in 1985.
Bob with some of the 1982 Brown Place calving crew. The Brown Place was one of two, first heifer calving camps on the Padlock Ranch.
Hipshot horses during lunch break while moving cows on the Padlock Ranch.
Padlock Ranch (1981)
Padlock Ranch (1982)
Padlock Ranch (1983)
Yellowtail Ranch (1984)
Prison Ranch (1985)
While Bob was going to college working on his Animal Science degree, he often spent weekends with his University Advisor, Ray Ansotegui, helping out at the Prison Ranch in Deere Lodge, Montana. The Prison Ranch is a 38,000 acre working ranch that provides much of the food supplies for many of the institutions and half-way houses in the state.
Shelton Ranches (1986)
A Sunday afternoon picnic conversation with Grandpa Danhof.
Competing (not well) at the Ennis Rodeo wild horse race.
Artificial insemination crew.
Weighing, tagging, and tattooing a new purebred calf.
Summer work while going to college boarding horses, building barns and corrals, and taking out rides (1987)
Shelton Ranches (1988 and 1989)
