ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jack Young has trained and showed professionally in the past, mostly working cow horses.
He has also judged, both Western and English.
A graduate of CalPoly at San Luis Obispo, California, he ran the horse unit at Fresno State, in Fresno, California, for four years and coached the judging team. Then he had his own training stables in Fresno. He was around Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance back in their pre-clinic days, before they became famous, working with Ray for a number of years. He also rodeoed, and has buckarooed off and on over the years and given lessons to both adults and children. Jack currently does some training, lessons, clinics, and helping with local and state 4-H horse activities.
For clinic information, email him at jnjyoung@hotmail.com
Jan Young has published magazine articles on horses as well as stories and articles for young people. She is a graduate of Fresno Pacific University in Fresno, California. Her middle-grade novel, The Orange Slipknot, by Raven Publishing, is about a boy growing up on a ranch in Nevada. She is also pursuing publication of several children's nonfiction books, all on the subject of ranch life and agriculture. She is a Remediation Tutor (K-4), teaches a women's Bible study, gives piano lessons, as well as helping Jack with training, lessons and clinics.
The Youngs live in Winnemucca, Nevada. They have two grown sons.