Bayard fox biography of mahatma

The genesis of Equitours goes back to when Bayard Fox bought the Bitterroot Ranch in northwest Wyoming and began to operate it as a dude and cattle ranch.

He had dreamed of living on a ranch in the Rocky Mountain West since when he made the four day journey from Philadelphia to Seattle on a train pulled by a coal burning locomotive and spent two weeks with his father on a pack trip around Yellowstone Park.

After graduating from Yale he joined the CIA and worked for 20 years, mainly overseas, before beginning his second career as a rancher.

One of the problems with a dude ranch in northwest Wyoming is that the guest season is only about four months leaving far too much down time.

Bayard’s wife, Mel, had lived for much of her life in East Africa where riding safaris were just getting started in Bayard and Mel began leading groups in the winter to ride through the renowned Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. It was very remote and unspoiled in those early days and every safari was fille