MAGNETIC CLASP BRACELETS
Blue Moon Bracelet
Hand-braided horsehair bracelet with a centerpiece bead and one-handed magnetic clasp.
$38
I'm Junie Calloway, and the Mercantile is mine to keep. It sits in the old tack room off the main lodge — board floors that have been swept smooth for seventy-five years, a wood stove, and shelves my granddad Bud built when he opened the first cabins. What's on those shelves is the whole point: goods made by hand, by people I know by name, most of them within an hour's drive of where you're standing.
I don't carry anything I can't tell you a story about. That's the rule, and it's a short list of makers because of it — five of them. A leatherworker in Columbia Falls. A bladesmith up the North Fork. A horsehair braider in Hungry Horse whose work I've worn since I was a girl. Our own wool, off our own sheep, milled and woven and brought home. And the larder — the honey, the preserves, the sausage, the coffee that comes straight out of the ranch kitchen and Rosa's pantry. Everything here was made slowly, by somebody who cared, and it'll last you the way good things do.
Down the road in Hungry Horse, there's a workshop where horsehair gets turned into jewelry the old way — washed, sorted strand by strand, and braided entirely by hand. Cowboy Collectibles has been doing it for years, and theirs is the real thing: no machines, no shortcuts, just patient fingers and hair chosen for its shine and strength. A horsehair bracelet is a Western tradition older than any of us — buckaroos braided them on long nights in cow camp — and these folks keep that tradition honest.
MAGNETIC CLASP BRACELETS
Hand-braided horsehair bracelet with a centerpiece bead and one-handed magnetic clasp.
$38
BEADED BRACELETS
Hand-braided horsehair bracelet with seed beads in river-canyon blues and earth tones.
$39
ADJUSTABLE BRACELETS
Hand-braided horsehair bracelet with a Western cross, adjustable to any wrist.
$22
ADJUSTABLE BRACELETS
The everyday classic: a hand-braided horsehair bracelet that adjusts to any wrist.
$23
ROPE BRACELETS
A chunky rope-braid horsehair bracelet with silver-tone tips.
$28
BEADED BRACELETS
Hand-braided horsehair bracelet woven with Southwestern seed beads.
$38
YOUTH BRACELETS
A kid-sized hand-braided horsehair bracelet on an adjustable knot.
$18
EARRINGS
Hand-braided horsehair tear-drop earrings in chambray tones on sterling findings.
$24
EARRINGS
Feather-style horsehair earrings with a golden wing accent on sterling findings.
$24
EARRINGS
Horsehair earrings shaped around a small horseshoe charm, in several colorways.
$23–$29
WOMEN'S NECKWEAR
A long hand-braided horsehair lariat in soft chambray tones, styled your way.
$43
BOLOS · FREEDOM COLLECTION
A red-white-and-blue horsehair bolo tie from the Freedom collection.
$48
BOLOS
A bolo tie on hand-braided horsehair with a squared turquoise slide.
$48
BAG & BOOT JEWELRY
A clip-on horsehair charm with conchos and tassels for a boot or a bag.
$26
HATBANDS
A hand-braided horsehair hatband with tassels, sized to your hat's crown.
$34
FREEDOM COLLECTION
A red-white-and-blue horsehair bracelet from the Freedom collection.
$24
KEY CHAINS
A hand-braided horsehair key chain with a tassel and a sturdy ring.
$16
ORNAMENTS
A hand-braided horsehair holiday ornament with conchos and tassels.
$20Dale Hutton runs a one-man shop in a converted garage in Columbia Falls, ten minutes from our gate. He learned tooling from an old saddlemaker in Augusta and never looked back. Everything that comes off his bench is full-grain leather, cut by hand, hand-stamped, and stitched with waxed thread that'll outlive the rest of the piece. He tools the beargrass plume into a lot of what he makes for us — a little nod to the ranch, and the prettiest thing to come out of these mountains in July.
TWO RIVERS LEATHER
A hand-molded full-grain belt sheath, made to fit your knife exactly.
$65
TWO RIVERS LEATHER
Hand-tooled full-grain leather, made to outlast you, from Two Rivers Leather.
$120
TWO RIVERS LEATHER
An old-saddlebag-shaped leather tote that hauls anything and ages beautifully.
$240
TWO RIVERS LEATHER
A refillable pocket leather journal in the classic cowboy tally-book style.
$48Marta Lindgren forges blades in a shop off the North Fork road, past where the pavement quits, where the only neighbors are larch and the occasional grizzly. She fires a coal forge, draws her steel out by hammer, and grinds and finishes every knife by hand. Her handles come from what the country gives her — antler her brother packs out in the fall, stabilized birch, sometimes a piece of weathered larch off an old corral post. No two are the same, and she signs the spine of each one with a small forged "L."
LARCH KNIFE WORKS
A forged camp hatchet that splits kindling and rides a pack all season.
$165
LARCH KNIFE WORKS
A coal-forged hunting knife that holds an edge and is balanced to your hand.
$285
LARCH KNIFE WORKS
A keen little forged paring knife built for a working kitchen.
$95This one's ours. We run a small band of sheep alongside the cattle — Targhee and Rambouillet, hardy mountain wool — and for years we just sold the fleece off at the spring shearing and watched it leave the valley. A few seasons back we started keeping it. We send our clip to a small mill over in the Mission Valley, have it scoured, spun, and woven, and bring it home as blankets, throws, and felted goods. It's the only thing in the store that's born, raised, and finished within sight of the same mountains.
BEARGRASS WOOLENS
A heavy wool camp blanket woven from our own ranch wool.
$210
BEARGRASS WOOLENS
A wind-tight felted vest cut for chores or town, from our own wool.
$190
BEARGRASS WOOLENS
A soft, lighter wool throw in our naturals with a larkspur-blue stripe.
$145The Larder is everything good that comes out of the ranch kitchen and the row of beehives Rosa keeps along the south fence line. Our bees work the wildflower meadows all summer — clover, fireweed, beargrass, the whole Flathead bloom — and the honey changes a little every year depending on what's flowering. Rosa puts up huckleberry preserves from berries we pick ourselves up the draws in August, smokes a summer sausage from our own beef, and roasts a coffee blend dark enough to stand up to a six-a.m. start in a cold saddle.
THE RANCH LARDER
A dark camp roast built to start a cold Montana morning.
$18
THE RANCH LARDER
Small-batch preserves from wild huckleberries we pick ourselves.
$14
THE RANCH LARDER
Smoked summer sausage from our own grass-finished Angus beef.
$22
THE RANCH LARDER
Raw honey off our own hives, tasting of a whole Flathead summer.
$16