The
Flying Heart Ranch

I would visit Frank and Maxie often throughout the years (never often enough) and when I arrived at The Flying Heart I would seek out Frank who always had some sort of project going on. When I found him, there appeared to be no acknowledgment between us, he simply directed me to where I should be in the project and what I should be working on. We would go all day and then some and when we were done he would ask me to the house where we would shake hands and he would ask "how in the hell have you been". It was always as though I had never left.

On the Flying Heart Ranch at home on horseback

Frank Davies ~1938 ~
Trying to educate or being educated

Maxie was, is and always will be a teacher. Patience just seems to be a way with her when one wanted to learn, human or horse.

Frank at age 91

Cowboy Wisdom

I recall a man coming to Frank and telling him of his problem horse and he asked Frank if he was a horse trainer. Frank said "I ride 'em". The man persisted in wanting to know if Frank was indeed as talented a horse trainer as he had heard. Frank finally told the man, definitively,that "he rides horses and then he rides them some more until they get the idea".

Maxie schooling a horse