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Miles Kingdon has spent close to 40 years as a working cowboy. He’s wore out a few custom saddles over the years riding some of B.C.’s biggest historic cow outfits.
Miles spent time at Douglas Lake Ranch working for such respected horsemen as Stan Murphy and cattlemen Mike Ferguson and Orval Roulston, which set the stage for later lead positions at some of the other large commercial ranches in the Nicola Valley. Notably, Miles held cowboss positions on the Bar K and the Gang Ranch; he was the manager at Empire Valley Ranch, and eventually served ten years as manager of cattle operations at Quilchena Cattle Company.
The geographical diversity of these big outfits has provided Miles with a true cowboy’s grasp of practical horsemanship and livestock handling in all weather conditions, in all possible circumstances.
Throughout these 40 years in the industry Miles has recognized the true meaning of an equine partnership built on trust, confidence and respect. He has spent time in both Mexico and California studying horsemanship and this, along with years of colt starting, is the knowledge and the tradition he is now passing on through horsemanship and horse training clinics.
Miles has also done clinics for Extreme Mountain Trail, he’s judged the Californio Bridle horse show, judged lots of working ranch horse competitions, and he’s been a well respected judge at the Mane Event Trainer’s Challenge for years. Miles now manages a yearling pasture for Nicola Ranch and he cowboys for Coldstream Ranch when needed.
Miles, along with Prince George cowboy Mark Grafton will be inducted into the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame at the Kamloops Cowboy Festival the evening of Friday, Mar. 17, in the Kamloops Coast Hotel and Convention Centre.
Tickets and information are available from the BC Cowboy Heritage Society toll free at: 1-888-763-2221 and you can find out more about the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Society at: www.bcchs.com.
