It’s a very sure bet that Shane Wohlfert, 53, never imagined he’d be a cowboy when he was growing up in Lansing, Michigan.
“I really didn’t know about Black and white issues because there was not very many white kids in the school I went to,” Wohlfert said. “It was predominantly Black— African American—and I knew no difference.”
Now hailing from Vado, New Mexico, Wohlfert was the one to whip on the wrestling mat throughout his grade school years. When his parents moved him to a K-12 school in Perry, Michigan’s “farm country,” he got a taste for hunting and the outdoors, but he was still decades away from riding a horse for the first time.
“I learned a little bit of farming, and I knew I didn’t want to go to college
