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Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Paperback - 2009
by Deanne Stillman
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- Paperback
This epic story offers a sweeping tale of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West.
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Details
- Title Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West
- Author Deanne Stillman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner, U.S.A.
- Date 2009-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SON000032497
- ISBN 9780547237916 / 054723791X
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History, Mustang - History
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.665
Summary
Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors, its bloody battles on the old frontier, its iconic status in Buffalo Bill shows and early westerns, and its plight today as it makes its last stand on the vanishing range. With the Bureau of Land Management proposing to euthanize thousands of horses and ever-encroaching development threatening the land, the mustang’s position has never been more perilous. But as Stillman reveals, the horses are still running wild despite all the obstacles, with spirit unbroken. "Like the best nonfiction writers of our time (Jon Krakauer and Bruce Chatwin come to mind), Stillman's prose is inviting, her voice authoritative, and her vision imaginative and impressively broad." (Pam Houston, Los Angeles Times)