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The horse lover : a cowboy's quest to save the wild mustangs
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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...
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.<
Details
- Creator
- H. Alan Day with Lynn Wiese Sneyd ; foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, 2014
- ©2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781496232632, 1496232631, 9780803255005, 0803255004, 9780803254992, 0803254997, 0803253354, 1306321697
- Description based upon print version of record.
- English
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication and Epigraph; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 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; 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; 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; About the Authors
Subjects
- Day, H. Alan.
- 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.
- South Dakota -- Social life and customs.