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A sexy find -- Opportunity walks in -- The dream takes shape -- Palomino valley -- Two cowboys corral congress -- Hard-won approval -- A stubborn start -- Vying for the upper hand -- In training -- Renegades -- A wormy mess -- Bound for summer grazing -- Saber -- Fame finds us -- On thin ice -- Horses of many colors -- Sorting the seven hundred -- Order to kill -- An unlucky penny -- At the end of the day |
Summary |
He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that's what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 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 |
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Day, H. Alan
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Day, H. Alan fast |
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Mustang -- Conservation -- South Dakota
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Wild horses -- Conservation -- South Dakota
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Cowboys -- South Dakota -- Biography
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Ranchers -- South Dakota -- Biography
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Wildlife conservationists -- South Dakota -- Biography
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Wild horses -- Government policy -- United States
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Mustang -- Government policy -- United States
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Ranch life -- South Dakota
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NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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Cowboys
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Manners and customs
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Ranch life
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Ranchers
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Wild horses -- Government policy
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Wildlife conservationists
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South Dakota -- Social life and customs
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South Dakota
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Sneyd, Lynn Wiese
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O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-
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ISBN |
9781461956617 |
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1461956617 |
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9780803255005 |
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0803255004 |
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0803254997 |
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9780803254992 |
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