The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

Hollis Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2014
Bison Books (Verlag)
978-0-8032-5335-3 (ISBN)

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Tells the author's personal history of the sanctuary's vast enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. This book weaves his recollections of his cowboying adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance, and hope.

Southwest Book of the Year
Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner
New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for Best Memoir
Arizona Author’s Association Literary Award for Best Memoir

He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what H. Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned thirty-five thousand pristine grassy acres. The opportunity then dropped into his lap to establish a sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses previously warehoused by the Bureau of Land Management. After Day successfully lobbied Congress, those acres became Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary established in the United States.

The Horse Lover is Day’s personal history of the sanctuary’s vast enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Day’s deep connection with the animals in his care is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, with which he trained fifteen hundred wild horses. The Horse Lover weaves together Day’s recollections of his cowboying adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance, and hope. This heartfelt memoir reveals the Herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of wild horses.

H. Alan Day formerly owned Mustang Meadows Ranch near St. Francis, South Dakota; Rex Ranch near Whitman, Nebraska; and Lazy B Ranch in southern Arizona. With his sister, Sandra Day O’Connor, he coauthored Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. He and Lynn Wiese Sneyd also coauthored Cowboy Up: Life Lessons from the Lazy B. Lynn Wiese Sneyd is a published author and owner of LWS Literary Services. Sandra Day O’Connor served on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1981 to 2005.

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part 1

1. A Sexy Find

2. Opportunity Walks In

3. The Dream Takes Shape

4. Palomino Valley

5. Two Cowboys Corral Congress

6. Hard-Won Approval

Part 2

7. A Stubborn Start

8. Vying for the Upper Hand

9. In Training

10. Renegades

11. A Wormy Mess

12. Bound for Summer Grazing

13. Saber

14. Fame Finds Us

15. On Thin Ice

Part 3

16. Horses of Many Colors

17. Sorting the Seven Hundred

18. Order to Kill

19. An Unlucky Penny

20. At the End of the Day

Vorwort	Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Zusatzinfo	17 photographs
Verlagsort	Nebraska
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-5335-4 / 0803253354
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-5335-3 / 9780803253353
Zustand	Neuware