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Back Country Horsemen Guidebook

Table of Contents

1 Back Country Horsemen of America
2 Foreword
3 Purpose
4 Plan Ahead and Prepare
5 Stock
6 Training
7 Hauling Stock
8 Saddles and Tack
9 Pack Saddles
10 Pack Equipment
11 Personal Equipment
12 Horse Care
13 On the Trail
14 Trail Courtesy
15 Holding and Tying
16 Grazing
17 The Camp Spot
18 Firewood
19 Precautions with Fire
20 Camp Sanitation
21 Humane Destruction of An Injured Horse
22 Environmental Concerns
23 Summation
24 Appendix
 

This publication was prepared by the Back Country Horsemen of America and published in partnership with the Northern, Intermountain, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Southwest Regions USDA Forest Service.
 

Dedicated to future generations so they too may find the same peace and beauty we now enjoy in the back country and to the people working diligently to keep it wild.

 First Printing - Flathead MT, BCH  1974
 Revised - BCHA  1988
 Revised - BCHA Nov.. 1991
 Revised - BCHA Jan. 1997
 HTML Transfer - BCHC Dec. 1997

Illustrations by Sherri Hill
Printed by Hungry Horse News - Columbia Falls, MT - U.S.A.
Additional copies may be obtained, as available, by writing:
Back Country Horsemen of America
22815 168th Ave E
Graham WA 98338-7609
or
P. 0. Box 597
Columbia Falls MT 59912

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