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21) Wild Horse Mesa
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From the master of the western comes a novel full of romance and adventure. The story begins: The mystery and insurmountable nature of Wild Horse Mesa had usurped many a thoughtful hour of Chane Weymer's lonely desert life in Utah. Every wandering rider had a strange story to tell about this vast tableland. But Chane had never before seen it from so lofty and commanding a height as this to which Toddy Nokin, the Piute, had led him; nor had there ever...
22) Horse
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"A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. Jarrett, an enslaved groom, and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. As the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young...
23) Breaking Free
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Heartland volume 3
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c2000
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It will take all of Amy's courage to let go of her mother's legacy, but it is the only way that she will break free and find her own
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"I've started horses since I was 12 years old and have been bit, kicked, bucked off and run over. I've tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed."Brannaman shares his methods for training and provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Robert Redford's movie The Horse Whisperer, for which he was the technical advisor.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
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Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
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Billy and Blaze books volume 9
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A youngster outgrows carved ponies and stuffed ponies, and finally he wants a gray pony, with spots, please, and alive.
28) Secretariat
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[2010]
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"In 1973, Secretariat, the greatest champion in horse-racing history won the Triple Crown. He still holds the record for the fastest times in both the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. The tale of "Big Red" is an enduring classic, more than thirty years after its initial publication"--Back cover.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 3
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When Alec receives the black stallion's first son as a gift, he believes his dreams have come true, but Satan is a dangerous and unpredictable horse.
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2014.
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As a licensed trainer in Colorado you are expected to understand the Colorado Racing Commission Rules and Colorado Revised Statute ʹ12-60-201 et seq. with regards to Horse Racing in Colorado. The following information is designed as a study guide to assist trainers in preparation for the written horse trainer's test.
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Horses of Half Moon Ranch volume 4
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After moving from the city out to the horse ranch with her family, Kirstie Scott leads a pony trek through Miner's Ridge when a sudden storm causes a landslide. Trapped alone in Dead Man's Canyon with a herd of wild horses whose leader--a proud, black stallion--has been hurt by falling rocks, she must find a way out and help the injured stallion.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 7
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Pitch and Steve's secret island valley is discovered and invaded by a hard and vicious man, who is a threat to the island stallion and his band.
36) Buck
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2010.
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Explores the life and career of real life "horse-whisperer" Buck Brannaman.
37) Wild horses
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Examines the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of various species of wild horses, now found only in Africa, Asia--and in zoos.
38) Wild horses
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Long ago, all horses were wild. In time, people taught them to wear a saddle and a bit. But some hroses wer not tamed. They never pulled a wagon. They never carried a rider or stayed in a stable. And they were never fenced in. On the moors of England, in the American West, and in the Australian outback, the world's wild horses still run free.
39) Seahorses
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[2018]
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"A look at seahorses, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their prehensile tails, behaviors, relationships with humans, and the mysteries that still surround these fish today"--
40) Paint the wind
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After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.