The Horse Lover: A Cowboy’s Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs.

DAY, H. Allan. With Lynn Wiese Sneyd. Foreword by Sandra Day O'Connor.

$475.00

Item Number: 121061

Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

First edition of Day’s personal history of Mustang Meadows Ranch. Inscribed by H. Alan Day on the title page, “To Jane Best Wishes Alan Day” and signed by his sister Sandra Day O’Connor who contributed the introduction and with whom he previously coauthored Lazy B.: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Joel Sartore. Rare signed by Sandra Day O’Connor.

The Horse Lover is Day's personal history of Mustang Meadows Ranch, the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary established in the United States. His deep connection with the animals and his care is clear from the outset, as is his maverick philosophy of horse-whispering, with which he trained fifteen hundred wild horses. The Horse Lover weaves together Day's recollections of his cowboying adventures astride some of his best horses, all of which taught him indispensable lessons about loyalty, perseverance and hope.