Welcome to the Western Dressage Association™ of America

The journey of the horse in America has been a long one. In the sixteenth century, the horse carried Spanish conquistadors from Mexico into the American Southwest, returning to a land it had left many ages before. The horse carried Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery along the Missouri River, across the great plains of Montana and over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific shore, mapping a region so vast its frontier seemed without end. Bearing their burdens and their sorrows, the horse carried Native Americans as they rode their Trail of Tears to reservation lands in Oklahoma; and it was the horse that laid down its bones for American Pioneers in the desolate sands of the Humboldt Sink, far from a promised place in California whose sweet grass it would never taste.

Canyon De Chelly Rock by Edward Curtis 1904

Canyon De Chelly Rock by Edward Curtis 1904

 Oregon Trail by Albert Bierstadt - 1869

Oregon Trail by Albert Bierstadt - 1869

 The Stampede by Frederick Remington

The Stampede by Frederick Remington

 Coronado\'s March by Frederick Remington

Coronado's March by Frederick Remington

 Westward Expansion - Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Westward Expansion - Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

 Horse Thief by George Caleb Bingham

Horse Thief by George Caleb Bingham

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The mission of the Western Dressage Association™ is to honor the horse and to value the partnership it has provided us on our American journey.  Its mission is to provide a model of training and horsemanship which optimizes this partnership for the benefit of both horse and rider.  Its mission is to celebrate the American West where all these things came to pass.

 

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