The Horse Lover av H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd

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<P><B>Southwest Book of the Year<BR/> Will Rogers Medallion Award Winner<BR/> New Mexico–Arizona Book Award for Best Memoir<BR/> Arizona Author’s Association Literary Award for Best Memoir</B><BR/><BR/> He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what H. Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned thirty-five thousand 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.<BR/><BR/><I>The Horse Lover</I> is Day’s personal history of the sanctuary’s vast enterprise, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dange