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Author Day, H. Alan

Title The horse lover : a cowboy's quest to save the wild mustangs / H. Alan Day with Lynn Wiese Sneyd ; foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

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Contents 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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Subject Day, H. Alan
SUBJECT Day, H. Alan fast
Subject Mustang -- Conservation -- South Dakota
Wild horses -- Conservation -- South Dakota
Cowboys -- South Dakota -- Biography
Ranchers -- South Dakota -- Biography
Wildlife conservationists -- South Dakota -- Biography
Wild horses -- Government policy -- United States
Mustang -- Government policy -- United States
Ranch life -- South Dakota
NATURE -- Animals -- Mammals.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
Cowboys
Manners and customs
Ranch life
Ranchers
Wild horses -- Government policy
Wildlife conservationists
SUBJECT South Dakota -- Social life and customs
Subject South Dakota
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Sneyd, Lynn Wiese
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 1930-
ISBN 9781461956617
1461956617
9780803255005
0803255004
0803254997
9780803254992