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Getting There

The long, but serendipitous trail that led to Jeremiah Watt’s hard-won, saddlemaking career, first beckoned when he was a teenager. Energetic and restless, he felt compelled to move from his home in Ontario, Canada, to Manitoba to take a high school course in agriculture. He stayed with his parents’ friends, Calvin and Mavis Stewart, who were avid horse and rodeo folks.

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