Wild Horses, Cris Peterson
Wild Horses, Cris Peterson
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Wild Horses
Black Hills Sanctuary

Author: Cris Peterson

Narrator: James Jenner

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/15/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction


Synopsis

In the Black Hills of South Dakota lie eleven thousand acres of breathtaking rangeland and rimrock, canyons and pastures - home to more than three hundred wild mustangs. This preserve was the vision of one man - Dayton Hyde - who conceived of a place where wild horses could live and die in freedom and dignity. Stunning photographs and a richly eloquent text tell the story of Dayton's love of horses and the American West - and how he made this wildlife sanctuary become a reality. Readers will meet horses named Painted Lady and Medicine Hattie, among others. Every year colts are born and older horses die - returning to the earth as their bones are bleached in the sun. This heroic and inspirational tale is told in simple, lucid prose. Conservationists, wildlife advocates, and horse lovers of all ages will rejoice in this story, as well as in the glorious photographs throughout.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J on January 17, 2023

An introductory book that allows children to follow Dayton Hyde in his setting up of a wild horse sanctuary for unwanted wild horses captured from federal lands and saved from crowded government lots. The writing is brief and simple to follow while at times quite poetically descriptive. Here the yo......more

Goodreads review by Rena on January 10, 2016

Lovely antidote to H. Alan Day's miserable "The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs." Here's where the idea of creating a sanctuary for unadoptable mustangs actually worked out. Lovely photos of landscape and horses. Very soothing. Only complaint -- too darn short.......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on October 28, 2013

One man doing good.......more