In eastern Idaho, we found a family that is Saving Americana using draft horses to do work on the ranch that would usually be done with tractors and trucks. With the help of their four children, AJ & Kortnee Woolstenhulme are recapturing the spirit of a working farm and ranch right out of the 18 hundreds, on land that has been in the family for six generations in the Teton Valley.

AJ uses American Brabant Draft Horses. They have European bloodlines. The horses work with old restored equipment found on the farm and each year they put on quite a show at “Hay Day,” showing the public how things were done back in the day. They are plowing fields and cutting hay the way their ancestors would have done it. They are preserving the tradition of “Loose Stack Hay,” as done in the days before the hay was bailed. And on the farm, friends and family tell us the stories of the past — and the legend of the two most famous barns in America.

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