BUTTE, Mont. — Volunteers and service rangers in southwest Montana are training on a skill that dates back hundreds of years -- horse packing. Organizers say the advantage of horse packing is better ...

Hannah (left), Brady (middle) and Kimber Boll have been putting their horse packing skills to good use, teaching others as part of 4H and Northwest Montana Back Country Horsemen projects. (Jeremy ...

With elbows and cowboy boots perched on a circular metal corral, the crowd listened intently as legendary outfitter Smoke Elser stood in the center of the ring demonstrating how to pack a horse and ...

KALISPELL, Mont. -- On a summer evening, three horse packers rode into the Bob Marshall Wilderness north of Lincoln to pack out a trail crew. The crew had been packed into the wilderness by a ...