Maybe it’s all the Western movies consumed as kids, or the “Yellowstone” television series, or just a dream city folk have to fully experience the West.

Despite age, gender or one-time fears, the urge to saddle up and learn horsemanship seems to be stirring in many Wyoming transplants.

From Cody to Evansville to Riverton and beyond, the opportunities for older wannabe cowboys and cowgirls to scratch that itch provides stable owners plenty of tenderfoots to school in the proper Western protocols of riding and caring for a horse.

Cody’s Meredith Zajac said her Wyoming Horsemanship Academy sees 60 to 70 students come through every week. She estimates 25 of those are adults who want to be schooled in the equine ways of the West.

She immerses them into the basics such as leading a hor

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