Dan Schneider is a former First Team All American baseball player and after his college time at University of Arizona he went on to play professionally for the Braves and the Astros.

After his departure from baseball he needed to take care of his growing family and landed in the casualty insurance business. As luck would have it he started a relationship with the True family and White Stallion Ranch.

In 1998 Dan attended the inaugural Dude Ranch Convention and in 2004 he started the Dude Ranch Horse Safety Program. This has lead to a 35% decrease in injuries and helped dude ranches nationwide.

Enjoy the banter between long time personal and business friends in this episode of the Cowboy Up Podcast.

Karin Winegar is a long-time journalist who recently completed a 30 + year labor of love when Horse Lovers – Unpacking The Female Fascination With Horses. Karins work has been featured in the New York Times, Conde Nast and The Western Horseman.

Karins love for animals made her want to be a veterinarian and her love was eventually channeled to the written word. Karin was a reporter for the Minneapolis Star and along the way interviewed such heavyweights as Dick Cavett, Joan Rivers, Anthony Quinn and Rodney Dangerfield who wore a bathrobe to the interview!

Horse Lovers – Unpacking The Female Fascination reveals women as risk takers, romantics, independents so much more. She untangles the roots of female horse craziness, sizes it up, assesses its causes and effects and explores in depth who women are and why women feel and do what they do.

It is a trail of exaltations, adventures and inquiries. It is about a colorful worldwide culture, about vivid lives and about a unique form of love.

Sit back and enjoy!

Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing non-fiction books about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. Chris was a guest at White Stallion Ranch and she took time from her vacation and spent it with Russell and Steven for the Cowboy Up Listeners.

Chris has authored more than fifty published books on the subject of women in the old west. Chris has been honored with nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards, two Elmer Kelton Book Awards, an Oklahoma Center for the Book Award, three Foreword Review Magazine Book Awards, the Laura Downing Journalism Award, and a Willa Cather Award from Women Writing the West for scholarly nonfiction.

Enss’s most recent works are The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier, An Open Secret: The Story of Deadwood’s Most Notorious Bordellos, and Along Came a Cowgirl: Daring and Iconic Cowgirls of Rodeos and Wild West Shows.