The Circle B Bar T has many meanings to Marty and me. The B stands for Baxter, the T stands for Teegardin, the Circle is our marriage and the bar is how we finished the brand. Our web site for the horses is circlebbartarabians.com, our e-mail address is circlebbart@nemont.net, and Clint's Etsy site featuring his art is circlebbart.etsy.com. What you'll see if you return to this site is more about Montana, Clint & Marty, their home, their animals and living on a Montana ranch.
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One of the most scenic places in our area is Woodbine, where as the snow melts the water spills out of the Beartooth Mountains and forms the Stillwater River. In the spring the water is fast and furious, the fish are hiding in the rocks from the rapid water flow, the temperature of the water is cold and you want to stay away from the flow. (Come back in August if you want to fish). Picture s of the gorge are beautiful, we then added Marque Teegardin and his son, Sam, from Alpharetta, Georgia posing on a boulder near the rapids. Suddenly, Marque was behind the rock they were sitting on, grasping to get out of the flow and the cold water. Marque did escape and was later seen with his wife Dana and Sam in a more friendly setting.
This is what Circle B Bar T looks like. This is a crystal replica of our brand that was give to us in the summer of 2008 by Chris and Hal Harnden of Fremont, Ohio. This hangs in one of the front panes in our home, overlooking our property, the Grove Creek, and the Beartooth Mountains. It was in the early fall when the picture of the brand was taken, hence the golden look of the pastures. Hal is not only Chris's husband, but also the crystal artist.
Chris and Hal made the trip to Montana to meet, Miss Ellie, a young Arabian filly that they had purchased from us. More significant that the purchase was the full circle of Chris and Marty's relationship. They are both from Fremont, Ohio and when they were teenagers, their fathers introduced them to the world of Arabian Horses. They both had Arabians and that was the start. Marty got back into the Arabian world when we moved to Fishtail in 1999. Chris found Marty via the internet looking for a horse and the rest is history.
Raised on a farm in Ohio, Animal Science major at Ohio State and then made a left turn and spent the next 38 years in the computer industry with IBM and Unisys. On our second trip to Montana, my wife and I ultimately set the criteria for a place to purchase as follows: enough land for some livestock, could not see our neighbors, no buildings on the property, and no chance of finding ourselves in an Aspen or Vail in our lifetime. We found the place in June 1991, built the first part of our home in 1994 and have lived here permanently since 1999.
One of the most scenic places in our area is Woodbine, where as the snow melts the water spills out of the Beartooth Mountains and forms the Stillwater River. In the spring the water is fast and furious, the fish are hiding in the rocks from the rapid water flow, the temperature of the water is cold and you want to stay away from the flow. (Come back in August if you want to fish). Picture s of the gorge are beautiful, we then added Marque Teegardin and his son, Sam, from Alpharetta, Georgia posing on a boulder near the rapids. Suddenly, Marque was behind the rock they were sitting on, grasping to get out of the flow and the cold water. Marque did escape and was later seen with his wife Dana and Sam in a more friendly setting.
