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A working ranch outside Cody, Wyoming

Courses · Cabin stays · Cody, Wyoming

Ranch skills, learned by doing

Learn it in the saddle, in the river, over the fire.

Broken Arrow Ranch teaches horseback riding, cattle drives, fly fishing, ranch cooking and rodeo clinics in the places they happen — the arena, the pasture, the river, the cook fire. Cabins sit on the ranch, so a single course can turn into a week.

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Slow is a speed — ask anyone who has moved cattle.

Horses standing saddled in cold morning light on the ranch
Saddled and waiting at first light.
Courses
Horseback riding, cattle drives, fly fishing, ranch cooking, rodeo clinics
Stays
Cabins on the ranch — a night between courses, or the whole week
Where
Cody, Wyoming

The course list

Five things
you can learn here.

Take one, or string a few together across a week. Instruction happens where the skill lives: in the arena, out in the pasture, standing in the river, at the fire.

  1. 01

    Horseback riding

    Reins, seat and balance, and how to read the ground in front of you. Start in the arena and ride out from there.

  2. 02

    Cattle drives

    Move the herd at a walk. Where to sit in the line, how to work a flank, and why the slowest pace wins.

  3. 03

    Fly fishing

    Casting, reading the current, and the patient work of choosing a fly and tying it on.

  4. 04

    Ranch cooking classes

    The kitchen is a fire ring and a cast-iron pan. Cook what the country gives you, outside, with your hands.

  5. 05

    Rodeo clinics

    Groundwork, control and confidence in the arena, taught one skill at a time.

Riders moving a herd of cattle across open rangeland
moving the herd up the draw, mid-morning.
Enroll in a course

Tell us which one and we will tell you when to come.

Off the clock

The river at noon.
The fire by dark.

Between lessons there is a ranch to be on: horses to brush out, a river to stand in, and supper to cook over coals.

Hands working a fly rod on a clear river
reading the current, mid-morning.

The river runs cold and clear, and the mornings are the quietest hours on it. Waders help. So does standing still long enough to watch where two currents meet.

Cast iron pan cooking over coals at camp in the evening
supper, from one pan and a fire.

Cooking over coals is a skill like any other: feel the heat with your hand instead of a dial, salt earlier than feels right, and then let it sit.

Cabin stays

A porch, a stove,
and a very dark night.

Somewhere to come back to after a day in the saddle: plain, warm, and a long way from anywhere else.

A ranch cabin at dusk with warm lamplight in the window
the porch light on, last light off the hills.

The cabins are plain and warm: a wood stove, a bed with wool blankets, and a table made for writing things down.

Stay a night between courses, or make a cabin your base for the week. Bring a warm layer for the evenings and a book for the afternoons.

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Reserve

Tell us what
you want to learn.

Send a note with the course or the stay you have in mind and roughly when you would like to come. We will write back with what is open on the ranch.

Broken Arrow Ranch Cody, Wyoming

Write us a note

A few lines are enough. Tell us which course or stay you have in mind.

We will write back with the quiet weeks.