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"Cowgirl Country is a contemporary novel based on a true story.
A divorced, fortyish, business woman fulfills her lifelong dreams by working as a horse wrangler and trail guide at a dude
ranch in Wyoming. Her adventures take her from rodeos, endurance races, and pack trips over the Continental Divide into Yellowstone National Park to training wild mustangs in Montana and wrangling horse-pack trips into the Shoshone-Teton National Forests.
This book is an enjoyable read for any horse lover or fan of the West.
| |  | | Cowgirl Days
Sequel, female wrangler continues her adventures in Montana and Wyoming,including training mustangs and endurance racing, along with pack tripping into the Bridger-Tetons and Yellowstone.
ISBN 1-60563-218-X/b>
can purchase from: a href="http://www.prgottbooks.net">www.prgottbooks.net/b>/a>, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble
Excerpt:s:
"...'Mustangs make wonderful, loyal companions if they are gentled and treated kindly at the onset'...I don't think Leena realized that I had trained young mustangs at the ranch last year. I looked forward to working with all of them: the yearlings, two-year-olds, three-year-olds, and especially Jalam Akeem..."
"That evening, just in case the grizzly tracked us and came in | |  | | Eastward Bound
Memoir of the Kenoyer family of twelve moving from Iowa to Maine in 1928.
In August 1928, Annie and Henry Kenoyer decided it was in the best interest of their family to move to Maine from their home in Iowa with their ten children, ages one to seventeen. They were a migrant family, having already moved twenty-six times through South Dakota and Iowa, but this 1400-mile trip, in two 1920s vehicles, would prove a challenge to them all.
This is a true story told from the perspective of eight-year-old Ruth Elizabeth Kenoyer, the seventh child, | |  | | GENERAL PATTON Rescues the Horses
WWII was coming to an end, over 350 horses, best of the best breeding stock in EU, was about to be captured and killed by the Russian until Gen Patton said, "No Way" and Operation Cowboy commended.
General Patton Rescues the Horses
(As told by a Rescued Polish Arabian Stallion, Witez II )
Witez II, one of the most outstandingly, magnificent Polish Arabian stallions ever, tells the true story of how General George S. Patton and Colonel Charles H. Reed saved hundreds of noble horses from being slaughtered and eaten by the Russian Red Army near the end of the Second World War. Witez II actually lived the story, who better to tell it.
Gen. Patton and Col. Reed, both avid lifelong horse lovers, combined talents to capture and rescue the best-of-the-best breeding stock the | |  | | Horse Tails by Appaloosa Duke
"Horse Tails by Appaloosa Duke" is a horse story about bullying as he tells of his own life having to deal with being teased and picked on because of his unusual dotted, spotted coat pattern.
| |  | | Horse Tails by Famous Fred
This book about a rescue horse is based on a true story and is sure to warm the hearts of horse lovers, young and old.
span style="font-size: larger;">Fred was not famous for what he i>did/i>, he was famous for who he i>was--/i>a horse with a kind and gentle spirit who was loved by entire neighborhoods and towns in northeast Massachusetts and who showed his appreciation ever day for being rescued and given a second chance at life./span>
span style="font-size: larger;">There are fifteen photos inslucded with the story./span>
| |  | | Horse Tails by Mookie the Mustang
Horse lovers of all ages can read with pleasure as Mookie the Mustang tells his own story about being born in the wild and running free, as many would like to do. He tells of his family structure and herd etiquette, as well as the hardships his family incurs during winters and in times of drought.
i>Horse Tails by Mookie the Mustang /i>/b>is a colorfully illustrated children's book filled with adventures from romping carefree with his friends and befriending a Bighorn lamb to startling a rattlesnake and encountering a mountain lion. Mookie keeps the reader wondering what is going to happen on the next page.
His horse herd is eventually rounded up and he is adopted by loving owners who make sure he always has shelter from the elements and enough food and water
| |  | | Horse Tails by Shasta
A precocious horse named Shasta tells his life's story in this fun and informative children's book for ages 4-9.
ISBN 978-1-60643-294-5/b>
Can be purchsed from: a href="http://www.prgottbooks.net">www.prgottbooks.net/b>/a> or
a href="http://www.amazon.com">www.amazon.com/a>
In "Horse Tails by Shasta/b>" a horse tells the story of his life. His adventures include trying to befriend a porcupine, a snowman, a kid goat, neighbood ponies, dogs and puppies. By middle age, when a horse friend joins him in his pasture, his escaping through the fence and roaming free has become a habit.
He lived to be 30 ye | |  | | Horse Tails by Shiloh
Shiloh tells his story about preparing and participating in a horse show... then he goes on a three camping trip into the mountains with six other pack- trippers.
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14.0pt">Shiloh/span>span style="font-size:14.0pt"> is a small chestnut Arabian horse, owned by the author, whose specialty HAD been Endurance a | |  | | Me and Chief (Sitting Bull)
This historical novel recounts the last 20 years of Chief Sitting Bull's life and activities as told by his war horse, Blackie.
"ME and CHIEF (Sitting Bull)" is based on true historical events,and covers the years 1870 -1890.
During these years as Chief and Holy
Man of the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull
fought for, advised, counseled and re-
presented his people, trying to enable
them to live free on the northern plains
as they had always done, all while the government declared them “hostiles”
and sent military to round them up and
contain them to living on designated reservations.
Sitting Bull and Blackie were involved
in the Battle on the Rosebud, present
during Custer’s defeat, fled to Canada, surrendere | |  | | So You Wanna Be A Cowgirl
I was a forty-year-old divorced woman from Maine, running my own business when my Arabian and I were hired to work at a dude ranch in Cody, Wyoming as a ranch wrangler and trail guide. This is a story of my adventures.
ASIN B001FGHTN2
can purchase from: a href="http://www.prgottbooks.net">www.prgottbooks.net/a>, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble/b>
My first experience wrangling horses found me galloping over a headwall, down a steep bluff, amidst a herd of 100 horses. After learning to guide with my own horse, meeting a bear, and surviving a 9500-foot climb up Table Mountain, my horse and I nearly slipped 50 feet down a bank into the Shoshone River. All a part of becming a cowgirl.
&n | |  | | The DAYES of Wyoming
"The DAYES of Wyoming" is a historic novel featuring horse trainer, Bertha, and mountain man, Charlie Daye. Their adventures take place during the late 1800s to early 1900s in northern Wyoming, from Johnson County, east of the Bighorns, to Yellowstone, west of the Continental Divide.
span style="font-size: small">This was an exciting time of change in Wyoming: Wyoming Territory was admitted into the Union; the end of the trappers' rendezvous precipitated a decline in the fur trade and mountain men; Wyoming's Civil War took place in Johnson County; with Yellowstone recently declared a national park, Cody became a thriving communit as its eastern entrance, and work began on the Shoshone Dam, later known as the Buffalo Bill Dam and Reservoir. Hundred of thousands of bison no longer dotted the Wyoming landscape and the disappearance was soon followed by the extinction of w | |  | | Zenyatta: Queen Z--the Legend
Racing thoroughbred Zenyatta was a historical phenom from 2007-2011, winning 19 races in a row--more than even Secretariate. This is her true and heartwarming story.
Some have referred to her as the female version of Secretariat; some called her “super mare,” queen of racing, the finest mare in the history of thoroughbred racing. Some simply called her “Queen Z.”
Her name is Zenyatta—who, from 2007 – 2011, turned the Sport of Kings into an equal Sport of Queens.
Based on a true story, as told by Zenyatta herself.
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