MONTANA LEGACY

Sandy Seaton Sallee rides and writes from her log cabin on the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley, Montana. Sandy grew up in Yellowstone National Park, where she rode horseback among the elk and drove four-up stagecoaches. After cowboying in New Mexico, she returned to her native Montana where she met her future husband, Scott Sallee, in a wilderness hunting camp. Sandy and Scott now own and operate Black Mountain Outfitters, a wilderness and ranch horse and mule outfitting business. They also raise and train hound dogs, horses, and mules.

Sandy’s original western writing has been featured in magazines, gatherings, and shows across America and Canada, including Western Horseman, The Wall Street Journal, television specials, and cowboy poetry gatherings, magazines, and books internationally.  She is proud to share her tales of the history, animals, and people that are the heart and soul of the West.

Sandy has been an invited performer at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering a number of times since her first appearance there in 1990. She has performed at cowboy poetry gatherings across the West and was featured for her original cowboy poetry in the April, 2007 Western Horseman magazine. Her writing has been published in Bugle, Country, Country America, Coonhound Bloodlines, Montana Outdoors, and the Wall Street Journal.

Sandy was inducted into the Montana Poets Hall of Fame and featured in the award-winning Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks centennial video. She was honored as the 2016 International Female Cowboy Poet of the Year by the Academy of Western Artists at a celebration in Fort Worth, Texas.