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Loading... Galloping to Freedom: Saving the Adobe Town Appaloosasby Carol J. Walker
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Gold Award 2016 Feathered Quill Book Award Dignified. Playful. Protective. Affectionate with each other and loyal. A band of horses from Wyoming's famed Adobe Town herd are here brought to life in stunning images by multiple award-winning photographer, Carol Walker. Especially memorable are the blanket Appaloosa stallion that Walker calls "Bronze Warrior" and the flashy colored mares and offspring he watches over. These are wild horses, but today, they are no longer free. In 2014, the Bureau of Land Management rounded up 1263 horses from 2 million acres of Wyoming's Red Desert. At 22, Bronze Warrior was the oldest horse captured. He and three others in his band were shipped to Colorado, the mares sent to a holding facility in Wyoming, and thier young to Utah. Moved by the horses' strong bonds, Walker joined with other advocates to intercede. This is the story--Illustrated by Walker's signature dynamic images of searching out, gathering together, and ultimately reuniting Bronze Warrior's extended family at the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary. Galloping to Freedom will engage your heart and forever change your view of America's wild horses. No library descriptions found. |
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After reading this book I’ll never look at or think about wild horses in the same way. This is the story of a rescue of Americas wild horses as captured through beautiful photographs of the photographer. The photographer was able to take pictures of these horses in the wild, when they were captured and when they were resettled onto safe sanctuaries. Thanks to her photographs many horse families were kept together. Unfortunately when she checked in on some of the horses she learned that some of the mare had given birth in such crowed corrals that the foals did not survive. This is a story of sadness and hope. The sadness as we see progress taking away the lands of those who had the right to live there, the wild horses. It is also a story of hope as we see several people who cared enough to set aside areas that would be safe sanctuaries. I think one of the saddest things was that they sterilized all of the males. This means in some cases the end of the line of those fine stallions. Sometimes I read books like this and wonder why God put humans over animals if we were going to treat them the way we do. (