The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

Alan Day established Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary in the United States, after successfully lobbying Congress. The Horse Lover is his personal history of the sanctuary's enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures, as well as its dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Day's deep connection with the animals in his care is clear, and his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance, and hope.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Alan Day had already owned and managed two ranches and was reluctant to take on a third, likening it to a permanent migraine. However, he eventually acquired 35,000 pristine grassy acres and established Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary in the United States. The Horse Lover is Days' personal history of the sanctuary's enterprise, filled with surprises, pleasures, dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak. Days' deep connection with the animals in his care is evident, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, which he used to train fifteen hundred wild horses. The memoir weaves together Days' recollections of his cowboying adventures and the lessons he learned about loyalty, perseverance, and hope. It also reveals the Herculean task of balancing the requirements of the government with the needs of wild horses.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 140 x 215 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496232632