West Routt Library District

Describes the habits and behavior of the wild horses which have roamed across the American West for hundreds of years.

Presents nine essays and legends that celebrate the wild horse, by American nature writers, cowboys, and folklorists, coupled with a collection of photographs.

Text and photographs depict mustang social behavior observed by the author, as well as an account of how the mustang established itself and adapted to being a wild horse in the American West.

A brief history and description of the wild horses of the western United States.

"American Mustang uniquely weaves dramatic documentary footage of horses in the wild, together with a young girl's fascination with a newly adopted wild mustang." -- American Mustang website.

This book introduces mustangs, horses that started out as pure Spanish horses but over time mixed with other breeds, and explains that today wild mustangs live on government land and are controlled by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management.

There were those who thought the rare and beautiful wild stallion was just a myth. But for Hannah Mills and C.J. Adams the myth would become as real as the wild mountain range the wraith stallion called home. Hannah and her father Frank arrive at Mustang Matty Steadman's Bear Mountain Ranch, a spread which runs parallel to the Utah Nevada border. Hannah has come west to photograph the famous wild horses found on Matty's ranch. C.J. is from the neighboring...

If it werent for the efforts of one woman from Nevada, the wild mustangs of the West would have been eradicated. Velma Johnston, who later became known as "Wild Horse Annie" for her efforts, had been partially crippled by polio as a young girl. Having grown up on a ranch, she loved horses, so the sight of a livestock truck dripping with blood, in which injured and mutilated mustangs were crammed bound for a slaughterhouse, galvanized her into...