When this Idaho-based rancher family’s six children reach the age of nine, they become bonafide cowboys and girls. It was their third great-grandfather, Frank Carl Herman Bedke, who started ranching in 1878, and now their father, Ryan Bedke, a fifth-generation rancher, is working hard to carry on the practice the traditional way. Thirty-nine-year-old Bedke lives with…

Albert the baby camel is only six months old and gets excited by all sorts of things. But his first sight of snow had him jumping for joy. The gorgeous moment when he emerged from his barn at a California ranch to wintery surroundings was captured on video which quickly went viral, delighting viewers around the…

Female outlaw Jean Loring (Stephanie Bachelor) and her gang are killing wild game out of season. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature Films: www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: twitter.com/EpochTVus…

A cowboy whose friend has been swindled out of his ranch and then murdered must take care of the man’s son; then, he goes after the killers. The Montana Kid is a 1931 American film directed by Harry L. Fraser. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: epochoriginal.com Feature…

Lillian Wilkins and her old Civil War veteran uncle Jed Wilkins own a ranch through which a pipeline will be laid. They are unaware of this, but Dan Tyndall, Joe Hyslop, and Tom Binns are aware of the possibilities for a quick profit and set out to prove through crooked-surveyor Sam Brisco that the land…

A family of four who manage a community pasture in rural Canada have found happiness in the simplicity of everyday life. Their belief is to live wholeheartedly in every aspect of life, through the good and the bad, and to see God’s hand through it all. Canadian natives Vanessa and Levi Ould, who are in…

Setting the mood for a cowboy painting, 65-year-old New Mexico artist Tim Cox begins mounting a smoothly primed board on easel, and, paintbrush in hand, applies ever-so-thinly diluted washes of lightly pigmented tones of oil and spirits. This is how a Western realist oil painting starts. He masses-in main shapes first, fuzzy blobs, no details…

Tucked in the Malibu Hills, the 180-acre Rosenthal Ranch is a luxurious paradise that’s a world apart. Located just five minutes from the famous Malibu beaches, this estate is a spectacular, secure, and private oasis of tranquility surrounded by vineyards and the Santa Monica Mountains. On the market for $38 million, the 180-acre estate surrounds…

Spotting a wild owl injured on the side of a country road near their ranch, a Georgia couple driving by knew they had to turn around. Little did they know the encounter would form a lasting friendship with the feathered apex predator—whom they would name Ko-Ko. “It’s not normal to see an animal just sitting…

Back to Nature The best things in life remain as they have for generations; no new technology or innovations in science can compare to the authenticity of nature in her truest form. Conscientious ranchers across the United States have increasingly set out to bridge the gaps between nature, animals, the environment, and people, by raising…