Cowboy riding 400 miles on horseback to raise awareness for cancer in memory of father
(WSAZ) โ Harold Fitzwater is riding nearly 400 miles through Kentucky and West Virginia to visit his fatherโs grave -- and raise money to fight cancer. Normally, people in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia wouldnโt think twice about seeing a man on a horse, but seeing Harold Fitzwater and his horses on a busy highway has turned heads. โPeople say theyโve never seen horses going through town,โ he says. They planned to ride horseback from where they lived in Somerset, Kentucky, and return to their roots in Ivydale, West Virginia. As they were training their horses for the trip, Haroldโs dad was diagnosed with lung cancer and died shortly afterward.