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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people--including herself--are obsessed with horses ... She began riding ... when she was just two years old and hasn't stopped since. [This] is a ... love letter to these graceful animals and the people who--like her--are obsessed with them. It is also a coming-of-age story of Nir growing up an outsider within the world's most elite inner circles, and finding her true north...
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses depicts an era of the American West when capturing renegade horses from the hills above the homestead served as training ground for extraordinary horsemanship. It documents the life of the outstanding girl who outrode them all at stampedes and roundups and the woman she became, her spirit undaunted throughout a life marked with courage and adventure, triumph and heartache.
Born on a Montana homestead in 1887, at the age...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"At the age of thirty-seven, Courtney Maum finds herself in an indoor arena in Connecticut, moments away from stepping back into the saddle. For her, this is not just a riding lesson, but a last-ditch attempt to pull herself back from the brink even though riding is a relic from the past she walked away from. She hasn't been on or near a horse in over thirty years. Although Courtney does know what depression looks like, she finds herself refusing...
8) Horse crazy
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In the bestselling tradition of works by such authors as Susan Orlean and Mary Roach, a New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores why so many people-including herself-are obsessed with horses. It may surprise you to learn that there are over seven million horses in America-even more than when they were the only means of transportation-and nearly two million horse owners. Acclaimed journalist and avid equestrian Sarah Maslin Nir...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
If it werent for the efforts of one woman from Nevada, the wild mustangs of the West would have been eradicated. Velma Johnston, who later became known as "Wild Horse Annie" for her efforts, had been partially crippled by polio as a young girl. Having grown up on a ranch, she loved horses, so the sight of a livestock truck dripping with blood, in which injured and mutilated mustangs were crammed bound for a slaughterhouse, galvanized her into...