My chest swells with so much emotion when I see something like this. Living and or working on a ranch has been a dream of mine since the days of Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and all the other TV cowboys of the 1950's. I was never able to make that wish come true and at 75 can only continue to dream of what might have been. I am so happy to see that life goes on even with all the so called moderization of electronics that fills the minds of kids and many adults. Although I have lived in cities most of my life I still find being away from people and in the mountains of places like Montana, Idaho and Wyoming a pure joy. Thank you for bringing that hard but wonderful life to those of us that can only dream.

That barn warms my heart. Wish people understood just how important a good ranch manager is.

Really enjoyed this, Trinity! As AB's great-granddaughter, and the end of HIS line, it's so nice to see someone keeping his story alive.

I use to live on a farm many years ago. It was my Grandmother's farm and we lived in the hired man's house. I lived there until I was 8 and then my parents moved to town. Those 8 years were the best years of my life. I loved it there. Seeing that old barn I was right back there. I loved the smell of the wood in that old barn. Nanny use to keep turnips in one end of the barn for feed. Everytime I smell a turnip I am right back there.

So beautiful and so awesome to know A.B. Cook took so much pride and extra care to have the absolute Best Herd and the Best Barn for the Best Herd!!!! Truly Amazing to see such high quality workmanship!!!! I’m so sorry about your injury, Trinity!!!! I hope everything healed properly for you to get back at it!!!! Trinity, You Sir, are an amazing man and I wish I could have worked with you when I had my big Quarter Horse “Max” in my photo. The people I bought him from were up in Conrad, MT and they said he was from Nebraska and didn’t know anything about climbing mountains. He wasn’t registered, but he was all Quarter Horse. I put him on some good feed and I rode him straight up a mountain and he never hesitated!!!! By the way, that’s the Grand Teton right behind us in our photo!!!! I live in Idaho Falls now. After I took him up that first mountain and never had a problem, whenever people would ask me about his bloodlines, I just said “He’s out of Nebraska by Truck”!!!! It always got a good laugh, sometimes quicker than others!!!! I hope you can keep doing what you are doing with your videos for a long time!!!! Today’s young people just have no idea what it’s like to be a Cowboy, let alone a Rancher!!!! They need to know what you are teaching!!!! Thank You Sir for doing it!!!! SALUTE!!!! Terry Thornock 100% Total and Permanent Disabled USAF Veteran & Above Knee Amputee P.S. After losing my left leg in 2005 due to serious trauma and breaking my back at L-5 & S-1 vertebrae, plus 3 broken ribs, I had to sell my horses. A few years later, I even sold all my tack. That’s when ya know you’re done riding horses. Now I ride my Japanese Quarter Horse in the mountains. It’s a Yamaha Rhino side-by-side. I sure miss my horse, Max though!!!! Take care and may you have all the success and happiness you and Kandahar can carry!!!!

This is so interesting. I love the history of the ranches out west. That barn is beautiful and how it was built with drains and slots for dividing cattle is so clever for the time.

What a well put together history video of the ranch and barns thank you so much Sir.

A very interesting story. It brings back many memories of my youth staying with my grandparents and crawling around the hay lofts. They have a unique smell to them and this video brought. back those long forgotten memories. Thank you for that. God Bless.

I lived on the Chief Joseph Ranch for about a year1961 where I started school in Darby. The barns on the place had a similar construction and I believe they might be a bit older than the one shown here. On other ranches in Idaho and Eastern Oregon I stacked hay both long hay and hand bales in barn lofts using platforms and a trolley for the hand bales. Outside stacks we hada Jackson fork picked the hay up using a Mormon Derrick. We hoisted the hay and fork with cable and pulley system. My Dad was a Scots immigrant that showed purebred Herfords. pulled by a tractor. I quit the Cowboy life at 30 years oldbecause the kids needed shoes and doctors sometimes at the same time. Still miss the life, however at 67 there are days I'm glad I don't have to get up to feed the livestock before sunup or chop ice in the water trough.

My Grandpa and his family built barns up and down the Red River Valley ( ND/MN) some are still around! The few that have been maintained they're beautiful!

Really enjoyed your Montana history videos, and the AB Cook story especially. Please consider doing more historical videos. You have a talent!

Absolutely, beautifully done. A walk through history on a very famous Montana Hereford Ranch. Oh my only if that incredibly built barn could talk. Thank you for sharing.

Wow. This was a gem of a video. I've dreamed of living out in Montana since I was 15. Silly dream for a city girl from Florida who's family has nothing to do with this way of life but I've yet to give up on that dream. This video & the history you shared further reenforces my dream. Thank you. Every shot showing the landscape truly takes my breath away that it's possible.

The building of both barns is so innovative. Mr Cook was truly well before his time. Thank you for sharing with us.

I'm really impressed with your channel! I want to thank you for your informative and relaxed style. I started watching one of your short vids on horse handling, being an old horseman myself. Too late I realized I was hooked and have since subscribed! I watched the one one what it takes to run a ranch with gross and net profits. I hope people realize when they buy a tri-tip, what goes into the final price. I wish you and your family many blessings and pray that our current political clime and rising fuel, feed, and property costs and taxes get corrected soon for our ranchers and farmers. God Bless all of your true Americans who feed us, and live a way of life that is vanishing!

There’s just something about old barns! Love ‘em

Thanks for the video! I enjoyed hearing about the Cook history, & found the different construction options in the barns rather fascinating.

Some serious craftsmanship there

Even your pick of music is great...thanks for all you give us.

Incredible very professional history videography documentary story telling video. Exceptional work on every detail and explanation. Thank you so much for sharing all your very interesting intriguing historical discovery findings. Old barns have fabulous histories of people and things kept and protected in them. Videography and photography work, along with the cowboy manager sharing was exceptional and interesting. Mucho Gracias. Great old west tour. Hope to see many more.

Keep these videos coming, it brings back so much of my youthful history growing up in Montana, wish now I had never left 😢

Thank you for showing the real Montana and not the tourist Montana very beautiful

That stallion stall was awesome. The tack is still nice, I know people that would be able to use it today. Excellent video Trinity.

What a beautiful barn ,and country. I could live there

O man, this brings back memories! Have seen those barns a time or two, when we used to visit my grandparents, in White Sulpher. Chokecherry picking and a trip to see Ringling, were always in the books. O yea and the hot springs. Thanks for the memories. 🌿💙

When I was real young we still put up loose hay for a few years and we had a pulley system like that in our barn. We used a Jackson Fork on the pulley to lift hay up into the barn and then you pulled it to the far end of the barn and then dumped it using a rope on the bottom back side of the fork. Later we went to small bales and we had a bale elevator run off a tractor pto that would dump them up there and then you had to grab them and run them to the far end and stack them. By the time I was a tween we put our alfalfa hay for cows into silage in silos and then my cousin died cleaning one of them on spring and we switched to ag bags stuffed with silage. When we switched to mainly doing silage as well as some round bales we converted the top of the barn into a basketball court and my uncles would practice and play farm league basketball games up there in the winter. Now days I think it just gets used for storage. I'm not sure how old that barn is but I am guessing probably the main part of it was built in the 1940s or 1950s so not as old as this one but in the 1970s we were still putting up loose hay in it.

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story of ranching in Montana. I really enjoy all of your videos and your research on this ranch. Such a beautiful state Montana and thank you and all the ranchers who do one of the hardest jobs in the world. God Bless!!

Another wonderful & interesting video Trinity. Thank you.

Very well built and cool barn. Thanks for the tour.

This was Awesome. Please do more love the history thank you

I grew up in Billings, Montana, but my wife and I left in our 20s during the mid 60s. My maternal grandfather came to MT as a mule skinner in the 1890s and eventually founded the Bickle Ranch in SE Montana and had a house also in Ismay. My paternal grandfather immigrated around 1905 to Norrh Dakota and then moved to Plevna where he had the hardware store as well as a farm outside of town. My wife's father grew up in the Wibaux area and eventually had a ranch in the Shields valley near Wilsal, but later moved to a ranch outside St Ignatius. I enjoy your videos very much. I grew up in the city,, but enjoy remembering my encounters with ranch life with my uncles and my wife's family.

Another very influential person in Montana was the Dalys and their copper mines.

Enjoyed the video tour through the beautiful old barn. The history was very interesting to. Great drone shots. Y'all take care and God bless.

Looks like they are keeping the barn up well with a new metal roof.

You can tell that it is a horse barn and corral. Nice. Thank you for the tour. I enjoyed that.

Thanks for telling your story.

Thanks, that was a great view inside the past.

What a well-planned barn. Another neat one is the round barn on the Bayers Ranch north of Twin Bridges where Spokane, Montana's only Kentucky Derby winner, was born in 1886.

One thing that I noticed was the beautiful handwriting from back in the day, I haven't seen handwriting that nice in a long time. This was a great video and very entertaining. It is nice to see how they would do things back in the day.

I really enjoyed the show. You are getting really good at this

My heart leapt so many times Trinity, I and little sister spent every summer with my Aunt and Uncle as a kid,took the train from Wenatchee,WA to Whitefish,MO Mom and Dad and brother would come pick us up and we would vacation our way home. What I wouldn't give to live there now, so much beautiful land.More please,of this type of vids. Congratulations on a superior job.

Thank you, awesome video! Appreciate all the time and effort in gathering information.

Absolutely love BARNS. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Beautiful, so enjoyed this. The importance of good design. Configure the materials so that the most-frequently-required, difficult tasks are made easy ("form follows function"). Handsome, durable, efficient, that horse barn adds more than the sum of its parts to the landscape. Minor note: the bull barn, I believe, has a gambrel design roof. Its structure encloses enormous volume while providing much-needed strength against the elements. Thank you for featuring these gems 💎 Excellent tour.

AMAZING! It's so fun to look back and see how they did it back in the day

When you panned out from the barn at the end, you could see an impression of an arch around the doors. I wonder if there was an arched opening there originally, being changed later on. It would have been big enough for large wagons and later on, trucks.

Hey there Fella, thanks for this I came upon it by chance, what a great documentary!

I absolutely love the old barns I find on my trips! So many of these where better built and lasted longer then the homes they lived in

Beautiful. It was a hard life. But healthier

Quite the history lesson

Amazing!

The hay was done with a big hay fork 2' by 3' or so on a rope it dropped in the loose hay squeezed together a horse walked forward pulling it straight upin the hay mow then it had a rope on that a guy grabbed and pulled it down the track and when he got to the area he wanted to drop it he jerked the rope and it triggered a release to open the fork and the hay dropped on the floor we had one in our old barn in upstate new York!!

Wow that was extremely interesting stuff! Thank you

Man this is the most beautiful thing that I had ever seem this is my dream in someone life 100 years ago ,I have seen your videos on and off I follow many of you guys , I would like to live a month with you guys I pay all the expenses

I live in Ontario Vanada my Family bought our Farm back in 1908 , no cattle anymore as my dad's in his 80's but been in the family for 3 generations , sadly so hard to make money off farming here and we we known for our holstien cattle as my grand father use to show them and win trophy's ect !!! i so love your Video's Amen to you for bringing us Amazing Content's !!! God bless You and your Family !!!

Wow, that is amazing. My brother has a hip roof burn that is 94 years old.

Fascinating history. Thank you.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing

Was good to learn about that I was raised on a purebred polled Herefords till I was 25 and sold and showed them as well

Very interesting, thank you!

Really nice big barn 100year old great video , thanks to share , EU

You totally missed how the hay was put in this barn. The track in the peak of the barn was used in conjunction with a fork to raise the hay up then it was pulled along the track to where they wanted it then the fork was tripped to drop the hay. They could drop the hay any place along the track that way facilitating filling the whole barn almost to the top. Very efficient and not a lot of hand work until it came time to feed. That was work.

Great stuff! Ty

Wow wow wow...another beautiful video!! I always enjoy seeing historical pictures and imagination what it would have been like to live in those days. It's very fascinating to me. There are books that I've looked at showing how Kansas City Missouri use to look back in the days. I like to go back in time and just imagine how it would have been like. That was so kind of the Fryers to allow you to film this. The drone did an amazing job in showing us the land and buildings. Thank you again for an amazing video! Please tell the Fryers "thank you " for your viewers. Happy trails! God bless

Thanks for this

Love your channel!

Thank you....so interesting

What great craftsmanship.

So beautiful

I feel like AB Cook thought more of his livestock than probably most people he had contact with.. The Barn was & is an engineering marvel which would be hard to replicate in theses modern times..

Amazing video. Well done!

Great video! Thank you! Subscribed 🥰

It amazing how all that land and building seam to be just sitting there and not being used.

Thank You for giving us the $100 dollar tour. Really Really enjoyed it 🤗👍👍

Thank work ethic of doing things right. Has long since been forgotten. And what a shame that is.

BEAUTIFUL

LOVE this video and all of the content. Top notch stuff. My ONLY gripe would be the VOLUME of the music during the barn scenes. I didn't mind the music..... it was just SO LOUD compared to the voices during rest of video. Thanks for the video!

Fantastic! I often wondered how Old Days Ranchers kept a herd alice througn 6-7 month winters Apparently Cook had Engineers design this 300+ ft long barn.

I live in south Carolina and been preparing my future of going to Alaska or Montana one day soon the seclusion of being away from society Is what I'm working to do especially the way our country is headed but anyway I just found your KZfaq channel a few days ago and it's awesome and the way you do your videos telling history from the old days it's all great

Has anyone written a book about this ranch? Fascinating!

I’m not sure, but those pieces where they could put the partitions boards in were to slide boards into to keep them tight. It would allow them to slide up and into the channel then let them down keeping a tight fit to keep strength and security without nails or fasteners.

By the way...Please do more videos like this! I love history!

Perfect dream ranch.

Interesting and great music.

Very cool

I used to live in Checkerboard or what I think was called Glendale mabey, was in 1st and second grades ,went to the little 1 room school 1st-12 grade We lived on the Big Elk and Buffalo Ranch owned by Loyd Richards what a great place to grow up and raise a family

Thank you

I discovered you from your video with Peter, on his Raching series. I'm enjoying your channel.

Great video. Got to wonder if one of the feeding compartments wasn't for water?

Enjoyed looking at these barns, but if there could be less music, or not as loud. There is nothing wrong with admiring beauty in silence

THEY used forks and slings The forks you just pushed them down into the load and hoisted the load up to the track and dolly. The fork had little tangs on them that hooked on a lever so the fork woudn't pull out of the hay when you are hoisting. When the load reached the dolly or car you could pull the load to the end of the barn of your choice. Now you could pull a lever and release the little hooks at the end of the fork and drop the hay in your preferred spot in the barn. The slings worked the same way only you placed the slings on the bottom of your wagon rack put your load on. When you got to the barn you hooked the slings to your hoisting cable or rope and hoisted your load. I sure enjoyed your film thanks for sharing Our Mininites still use this system if you wanted to watch it in action.Thanks again.

Such a cool video

It IS why we live in Montana. 👍🏼. Great work. Now be careful! Question: What is the song at the end?

Wow thank you God bless sincerely Everett Washington State 👍😁🙏🇺🇸❤️👍

Trini even walks like a cowboy...😂😂

I just subscribed. Like your channel.

I worked for castle mt ranch back in the late 80s.

Lives on a farm back in the 60's Midwest mn..similar to this layout

Yes ....do one on downfall of Cook please I am curious about the lawsuit that caused the sale of one of the finest herds. What did A.B. Cook die of ? What did A.B. Cook's relatives do that tarnished the Cook name? What were the circumstances that surrounded the murder of Hervy Cook? Was it just a random burglary?

What kind of wood did they use on the barn. It is well made.