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A searingly beautiful tribute to wild Mustang family groups that
have been reunited after suffering roundup and separation in the
American West. In 1971, the US Congress passed an act that declared
wild horses and burros as "living symbols of the American West"
that should, therefore, be protected. But since then, the US Bureau
of Land Management--charged with the management of the Mustang
population--has rounded up over a quarter of a million horses,
often using helicopters. In these intense and frightening
scenarios, it is not unusual for wild horses to suffer catastrophic
injury as they desperately fight to escape or to reach family
members from whom they have been separated. The Skydog Ranch and
Sanctuary covers over 9,000 acres in Malibu, California, and Bend,
Oregon, where wild horse advocates are working tirelessly to save
these captured Mustangs from certain death through "kill pens" or a
life of captivity in institutional "holding pens" and return them
to freedom. To date Skydog has rescued over 100 wild horses and 30
burros, with a special focus on finding and reuniting bonded
families who may have once roamed the West together but who were
separated during the roundup and "adoption" process. In this
striking book, gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of dramatic
photographs, Skydog founder Clare Staples recounts heartbreaking
tales of liberty lost and the dramatic extents to which some
Mustangs will go to flee captivity or rejoin their family bands.
She describes the mission that drives her and the Skydog team to
identify and locate iconic wild horses that have been removed from
public lands, and then secure them in order to assure them freedom
at the Sanctuary for their remaining years--whenever possible, in
the company of their original wild herdmates. Readers meet Blue
Zeus, the stunning Wyoming stallion who Staples admired in the wild
for years before, in the fall of 2020, his herd was slated for
roundup and captured, in one day losing both their freedom and each
other. The story of the urgent search for him and his mares and
foals, and their eventual reunion in the hills of Oregon,
encapsulates all that Skydog hopes to accomplish for hundreds more
horses in the years ahead. Incredibly moving, inspiring, and
offering the hope of wildness and beauty preserved for future
generations, this book is for every animal lover and all those who
honor the natural inhabitants of the American West. A percentage of
all sales goes toward supporting Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary.
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