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Wild at Heart: Mustangs and the Young People Fighting to Save Them
196 pp.
| Houghton |
October, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-544-39294-6$19.99
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Photographs by
Melissa Farlow.
Beginning with "Wild Horse Annie," the 1950s activist who secured legislative protections for America's wild horses, this wide-ranging volume explores horses' prehistoric ancestors, herd dynamics, the horrors of roundups by government agencies, and today's young activists fighting to save them. Emotional language and first-person sidebars try to recruit readers to the cause, while crisp color photos depict beautiful horses in their natural habitats. Bib., glos., ind.