These lessons have a concrete reason: even in France, cattle-driving competitions exist. The practice is therefore not limited to the vast American spaces.
In the Morbihan, Alison and Didier run an operation they present as a ranch rather than a farm. Horses and cattle there make up a genuine Far West setting, in the service of a life of passion.
Three years spent working on an American ranch changed Didier forever. It is he whom this experience across the Atlantic marked, within the couple that runs the ranch.
Alison and Didier also give American-style cattle-driving lessons. The teaching extends the livestock farming: it is about teaching herd driving that comes from American ranches.
Horses, cattle, leather and spurs thus make up, in the Morbihan, a ranch where America is worked day to day, from livestock farming to the lesson, rather than replayed as folklore.
Alison and Didier raise their animals there and sell them. Livestock farming and sales remain the heart of the activity, beyond the setting.
Their ranch is described as a small piece of American territory. In this reading, the Morbihan becomes a tiny Arizona.
This picture moves away from the simple folklore of the lone cowboy. The ranch is presented as work, not as the image of an isolated rider.