Wetzel County Farm Bureau Members Honored by
Governor Tomblin
Two Wetzel County Farm
Bureau members were recently
honored by West Virginia
Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
for their accomplishments and
promotion of tourism through
their trail riding. Robyn Yeager
and Jeffrey Dutch Brown were
honored during the filming of
Best of America by Horseback’s
“Gathering at the Farm” in
Culpeper, Virginia. Yeager
received a special citation from
West Virginia’s governor. Tom
Seay presented Yeager with the
commendation, and went on to
tell the group Yeager had ridden
with the Best of America TV show
on 16 episodes in eight different
states in the past six-and-a-half
years.
Jeffrey Dutch Brown also has
ridden with the show five times
in North Carolina, Virginia and
Kansas.
just outside Fort Scott. Riding
along with the many herds of
horses living on the ranch was one
of the highlights for them as were
the beautiful open plains.
While in Kansas, Yeager also
participated in the Cowboy Poetry
contest and although her auditions
were lost in cyberspace she was
able to perform four of her original
pieces during the weekend for
the crowd and the auditioning
committee. She also had the honor
to sing with two nationally known
cowboy singer/ songwriters and
accompany Casey Jackson in a
duet on Sunday morning, and read
one of her non-cowboy poems
during the Sunday Memorial
service. Yeager has been invited
back to the 2014 echoes to sing
and read her poetry
The duo has also embarked on
several trail trips on their own,
including a 125- mile pack trek
across the C&O Canal, camping
along the outskirts of Antietam
Battlefield. They have also ridden
in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
Blackwater Canyon, Cleveland
Metro Parks, Stevensville
Battlefield and across the Daniel
Boone Trail.
Yeager and her horse Zigger
have also been recognized for
their trail mileage. Yeager has also
served as state representative to the
American Paint Horse Association,
American Trail Horse Association,
Their next trips will take them
across the 72 mile North Bend Rail
Trail, down the 80 mile Greenbrier
River Trail, across the Allegheny
Highlands Trail from Green Spring
to Buckhannon, WV, to Big Valley
Ranch in Alcova, Wisconsin
and then later to Leatherwood
Mountains in Ferguson, NC.
Yeager and Brown have earned
many trail riding accomplishments
over the past several years.
Jeffrey Dutch Brown earned top
honors with his mare, Beauty, in
the American Competitive Trail
Horse Association and finished
10th nationally. He has also
earned his 150 hour (500 miles)
AQHA level award and received
state recognition from both the
WV Senate and WV House of
Delegates for his trail riding
accomplishments.
Their latest adventure found
them in Fort Scott Kansas for the
17th Annual Echoes of the Trail
Cowboy Gathering. During this
event they were guests on the
beautiful Tucker Ranch located
American Competitive Trail Horse
Association and the Backcountry
Horsemen. Yeager has earned
1500 hrs. in the saddle on her
paint horses and an additional
4600 hours through the American
Quarter Horse Association,
compiling ever 25,000 miles.
Robyn currently serves as state
chair for the WVFB Equine
Committee.
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