Michael Hamm looks like your typical cowboy, but Hamm's life has been anything but normal.
Hamm- a Vietnam War veteran- is a former drug smuggler and convict.
"Some guys came to me and said we've got a business you can get into that will make a lot of money with your airplane- importing exotic plants from Central America," says Hamm.
"My first run, I came back with a thousand pounds of marijuana. They slammed the prison door shut and I didn't think I'd ever see the free world again."
Hamm did see freedom...then turned his life around. Hamm now operates a prison ministry and uses his life story to counsel both kids and young adults.
Hamm also uses horses on his 11-acre farm near Elberta as therapy and guidance for troubled kids.
Cross Roads Ranch provides "equine therapy"- an experimental therapy involving interactions between at-risk youth and horses.
Hamm hopes to expand his non-profit equine therapy program to a residential ministry and treatment facility for non-violent criminal offenders.
Cross Roads Ranch is holding a benefit rodeo May 24th and 25th at the Baldwin County Coliseum in Robertsdale.
Hamm says he'll need at least six thousand bucks a month to keep the facility up and running.
If you live in or around the Crieff, Perthshire area, make sure that you check out Crieff Hydro Hotel's very own Riding Centre, Set within 900 acres of beautiful Perthshire countryside at the foot of the Knock of Crieff, the Crieff Hydro Riding Centre boasts a unique and idyllic setting for horse riding enthusiasts of all levels.
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