Jeremiah Watt

I am going thru a box of photos, slides actually, and as I go thru them I realize how fond my memories are of this area, this ranch and the good times we had while there. We are in Colorado here, just to the south of Grand Junction on what is known as the Colorado National Monument if you are ever traveling through that way. It is well worth a trip to drive the Monument loop, better yet take a little side trip to the Glade PArk Store and then head due west into the country that I remember so fondly.Thats where mom and I had a great cow camp for the winter, no electricity, spring water, wood stove and the quiet of a deep canyon to live in........

Title: Cow Camp KItchen
Photo & retouching by: Jeremiah Watt

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Most folks only know California by what they have seen of Disney Land, or maybe Fisherman's Wharf. They take a cultural swab of California's hinter lands while passing through on I-5 doing 85 miles per hour, conclude there is not much too see and all the time having missed this...........................

Title: Thunderheads over Panoche
Photo and retouching by: Jeremiah Watt

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I thought that I should take a few lines and a little of my time to introduce you to my BEST FRIEND. Without this partner in life, I doubt that I would achieve a quarter of what I done to date. Truth is she makes this whole enterprise work, it is she that provides the strength to endure when circumstances seem to be mounting against us, it is she that most folks meet when our product is at a Trade Show. She, would be my wife Colleen.

Title: Mom on Fizzbomb
Photo by : Jeremiah

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I can't emphasise enough how badly I was wanting that chance to go to work on a large outfit, one of those often written about ranches that pulled a wagon out for it's spring and fall works. I admit, I was caught up in the romance of it, all that I had read, and all that I had seen thus far of actual ranch life was from a book.

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Photo by Jeremiah
Jeremiah and Colleen in Texas.

There is no doubt in my mind that the country and its adversities play a large part in the shaping of a mans character. Harsh land does not as one may think form harsh men, but rather it forms up men who are patient and willing to work with what has been dealt them. Men who make thier living out at the wagon in this grand vista that we call America know all to well..............

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A Canadian native, Jeremiah got his start in saddlemaking in 1976 at a saddle making school in Amarillo, Texas. After that he traveled around the country visiting saddle shops before he landed a job with Chuck Stormes of Calgary, Canada. After seven years he moved to the U.S, working as a ranch hand and building saddles and bits in the evening. After several years of roaming Jeremiah and his family settled in California.

A few years ago the Western Folklife Center commissioned Jeremiah Watt to make a saddle for our collection. We have asked him to describe his vision for the saddle and keep us posted in its progress through this periodic weblog from his shop in Coalinga.

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