White Sulphur Springs
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Sep 25, 2026
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And he's one of the best writers of the American West.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And he had grown up in this little ranching town called White Sulphur Springs.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And so I read about it in his book, came to check it out.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
It's about an hour and a half north of Bozeman and found an old saddle shop for sale for like $70,000 that had a commercial main street space and then i could live in the back and rent out two apartments upstairs so decided to make a move um to marr county which is where i still live and um at that time i was really committed to like all right we're going for this i'm borrowing money we're gonna um import some fabric get manufacturing going um build the shop space start renovating and and get these pants on the market
Steve SeegerHOST
And for someone that knows nothing about White Sulphur Springs, can you just describe the town to me and maybe the community, too, that would be
Sarah CalhounGUEST
helpful? And so it says high altitude is about over a mile high at the valley floor.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And then we're surrounded by the Big Belt and Little Belt Mountains, the castles and the crazies.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
Yes, there certainly is.
Dustin SearcyHOST
That probably, that paid really well.
Dustin SearcyHOST
They also placed at Walla Walla, White Sulphur Springs, Montana.
Dustin SearcyHOST
Not many people probably know about that rodeo, but sneaky a good rodeo to go to in the Northwest as well this time of year.
Dustin SearcyHOST
Um, as well as Dillon, Montana.
Natalie KovarikHOST
So let's go into that then.
Natalie KovarikHOST
What were some of those next steps, those really early years looked like? You obviously ended up in White Sulphur Springs, which we can talk a little bit about because that is still the international headquarters of Red Ants Pants.
Natalie KovarikHOST
You bought a really cool shop on historic Main Street there where it is like the old saddle shop.
Natalie KovarikHOST
So kind of walk us through those first couple of years of the things you did and maybe pull out the things that you think like other women could either benefit from hearing or relate to like kind of those early years building Red Ants Pants.
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Natalie KovarikHOST
Because One thing we haven't talked about yet, I mean, there's a lot we haven't talked about yet.
Natalie KovarikHOST
But one thing we haven't talked about yet is that in addition to the Pants Company, you also launched a music festival, the Red Ants Pants Music Festival and also the Red Ants Pants Foundation.
Natalie KovarikHOST
And when you launch your, when you host your every single summer, the music festival, the population in White Sulphur Springs literally, I don't, what is it like 10 times? I don't, I don't even know what it, what the number goes to, but it's just such a testament that like, you know, you can do anything where you are when you believe it.
Natalie KovarikHOST
And then you surround yourself with like the right people.