"He kind of hypnotizes his horses.  He gets into their minds and they want to work for him.  He never asks his horses to do anything they can't do, and he'll never push a horse beyond it's limit.  His horses trust him.  Few people in any lifetime can do what Wells does with horses - what he has is a gift."
-- LaVell Johnson,

President of the Intermountain Horse Pullers Association

Wells in 1930 with stallion,  "Hale's Archer."   He was one of the first native-bred Shires in the Eastern Idaho area. Leland showed him in FFA in the 30's. He died when someone left a bucket of poisonous oats in the pasture in about 1941.

     "I won an awful lot of trophies and ribbons.  You don't do it for the money.  You do it for the competition.  It gets in your blood.  Competition is what makes it interesting."  -- Wells, 1994

E-mail: dh@barney.myrf.net