Horse, Follow Closely

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The stunning full-color photographs and simple eloquence takes us back to the days when horse training was about creating a bond for life.

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Horse, Follow Closely.......2007-01-13

This is a wonderful book. I recommend for all who love horses and the Earth.

Use it as a leadership metaphor.......2006-05-19

Although I have ridden and worked with horses for the last 30 years, I found this book useful as a leadership metaphor for working with volunteer organizations. With volunteers, it's difficult to motivate and get them to accept authority, because there's no military oath compelling behavior and no threat of withdrawal of pay. Likewise, with horses. Horses took no oath, and don't care if you pay them. Many successful business leaders have used martial arts texts as metaphors to succeed in business, and I have had great success with Pony Boy's methods as a leader in volunteer organizations. I am the leader of my herd, and they follow.

Very Pleased.......2006-03-19

Wonderful gift! The photos are exceptional! Helpful information and makes a great coffee table book! Prompt delivery.

Classy, beautiful and worth every penny.......2005-05-21

This is a beautiful book, and it seems that it has made a few other folks out there just a bit jealous! Pony does it right, and the ten training steps are exactly the preview to his other training techniques that helped me to get started and get the amazing results and releationship that I've developed with my horse. It was nice to see a Native American man boldly share the heritage of the peoples who were here before us, and with such class and dignity. This book is like fine wine, and is always displayed on my coffee table as well as in the lobbies of several fine hotels in my area. I thought the chapter about falling off was incredible and it's about time that someone give some guidelines for this inevitable part of riding - Pony is certainly about firsts it seems and is not afraid to show all sides of horses, riding and training. See for yourself, and I highly recommend his new DVD series The Simple Truth About Horses, I have learned an incredible amount of knowledge from these detailed training DVD's! It seems that everything Pony spends time doing, he does right and now I heard he just put out a magazine for horsewomen.. Women & Horses Magazine - is there anything this man can not do????? Get this book, you'll love it.

I find it very sad that anyone would put down this book.......2004-05-14

This book is so beautiful not only in it's sensitivity toward the relationship between horse and human, but it's spiritual messages are heaven sent.
My whole life I have dreamed of this man, a true Native American Indian that has kept the traditional ways and hasn't sold out. Horses are very intelligent beings and not long ago it was rumored that they weren't. I was raised between two large horse ranches, the horse I rode the most was Apache a feisty and sweet Pinto who was a very smart tease of a horse. Horses have a very high level of intuition and emotion and get easily bored, they aren't cows. They love as deeply as humans when put in a relationship with a human that respects them as horses and allows them their freedom to be what they are and yet assist us. When you allow a horse freedom and don't force yourself on them with controlling and cruel training, you can't have a more loyal friend. This is what Gawani Pony Boy shares in depth and how to connect in ways that most humans today are completely unaware of. The photography is mind blowing. I'm proud to have this btilliant book be the only one on display on my coffee table, it lays on top of a circle of twigs made by an Indian friend.
Devra RecursiveAngel@aol.com

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History paid for
Best History of AIM
Remarkable read.
An infuriating portrait of injustice
What a great book!

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
Peter Matthiessen
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0140144560

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History paid for.......2007-09-24

History paid for.

The fundamental fact that Peter Matthiessen didn't mention in his detailed account of the American Indian Movement, the so called "Reign of Terror" at Pine Ridge in the early 1970s, the brutal murder of two severely wounded and defenseless federal agents and the trials of Leonard Peltier and his co-conspirators, is that while researching, interviewing and writing ITSOCH, he was under contract to share the profits with Leonard Peltier. That guaranteed him unlimited access. Hardly objective reporting.

Matthiessen did however go through great lengths to provide a tremendous amount of detail even if the bulk of it came from the usual suspects themselves.

In the end though, he was also convinced of Peltier's guilt. He shunned Peltier's only real alibi, that someone else, a Mr. X, whom they all knew and Matthiessen skeptically interviewed. Matthiessen was "Taken aback by this unexpected story." And when it came down to the basic facts of the killing of the two FBI agents he said "If there is another persuasive explanation of the location and position of their cars, I cannot find it."

Matthiessen also reported that one of Peltier's key attorney's, Williams Kunstler believed Peltier was guilty as well: "I know Bill Kunstler (another of the AIM lawyers) thought they killed the agents, but he believes that they were innocent whether they did it or not."

But it must be inordinately embarrassing for Matthiessen, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Peltier, and his supporters to know that someone of the stature of Alan M. Dershowitz, the distinguished Harvard law professor, said that Matthiessen "is utterly unconvincing - indeed sophomoric - when he pleads the legal innocence of the individual Indian criminals. The American Indian Movement - like every militant fringe group - contains its share of violent criminals who seek to glorify their predatory acts under the flag of the movement." "...(and) not only fails to convince; he (Matthiessen) inadvertently makes a strong case for Mr. Peltier's guilt. (New York Times, book review March 8, 1983.)

Because it provides much detail, ITSOCH is a good reference for comparing prior statements of the participants in the murders of special Agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams to their later contradictions and subsequent claims, all of which have changed over the years. It does serve as a good foundation and litmus test to further demonstrate Peltier's guilt.

Best History of AIM.......2007-03-26

This is a sweeping history of the American Indian Movement and Indian activism in the 1960s and 1970s. It covers the major events such as the siege of Wounded Knee and the arrest of Leonard Peltier. It examines in detail the Oglala Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge and its chairman Dick Wilson and his battle with AIM and Russel Means. Other AIM leaders such as Dennis Banks are examined as are the various trials sourounding AIM activism. Those are the books strengths, its weakness is that it does not give a good overview of the state of Native Americans in the U.S in thsoe two decades, concentrating instead on the places where activism took place and where shots were fired. However their were another hundred reservations where such things did not take place, including large reservations such as the Navajos and it would have be nice to learn more about politics and economies in these places.

Remarkable read........2007-03-24

This is an distubing yet fascinating book. Matthiessen has such a gifted way of putting the reader into the reality of the situation. Not a book for a reader who believes that the government is all good and correct, or maybe it is. Justice for 'face saving' and 'revenge'.
Terrible events and wonderful writing!

An infuriating portrait of injustice.......2006-09-19

I'm often deeply suspicious of writing as political as one finds in this book - I greatly admire Matthiessen's writings on travel, nature and Buddhism, but found his novel "At Play In The Fields Of The Lord" a bit ham-fisted in its' approach, even when I agreed with it's sentiments.

But after a few reads, several years apart, IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE stands as a great, damning document - it's a piece of work that is impressive and massive, and will leave you infuriated.

The entire work is built around the trial and conviction of Leonard Peltier, and rather than simply recount the events or press an agenda, Matthiessen goes to meticulous lengths to contextualize and cover every side of the background. The history of the Sioux Lakota is covered extensively, as are the social conditions (health, income, education, and the infamous violence) on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The AIM (American Indian Movement) emerges on Pine Ridge, and it should be noted that the reservation is officially two counties - Shannon and Jackson, which were administered from elsewhere in the state, and run by Bureau of Indian Affairs appointees, instead of by an elected government (the case in most US counties). These appointees' extreme and unorthodox tactics in administering the reservation dovetailed nicely with FBI surveillance and subversion of suspected subversive groups, including AIM, and the paranoia generated set the stage for the firefight and subsequent trial.

Matthiessen expends considerable effort in the attempt at giving both sides a space to speak, not extremely successfully from an objectivity standpoint, but well enough for the purposes of this book: Matthiessen also unearths and publishes a vast array of court transcripts and legal documents; a certain point of view does begin to emerge, and Matthiessen admits where his sympathies lie, but generally, this is a book in which the FBI and various individuals within the government of South Dakota hang themselves with their own words. And they do this consistently, over hundreds of pages, and when afforded many opportunities by Matthiessen to justify or clarify themselves, they fail to do so repeatedly.

Such Machiavellian governmental machinations were an unfortunate part of the political landscape during the Nixon era (this has not necessarily changed with the passage of time); this is one of the most devastating documents of that ruthlessness (see William Shawcross' SIDESHOW for a second, scary glimpse at this political tendency), and Matthiessen - through meticulous investigation and research - goes out of his way to be fair. Give this dense and - at times - difficult book some patience; the history lessons and legalese do have both a point and a payoff - this is a far more infuriating document of injustice than any simple agenda-based hatchet job could ever be.

-David Alston

What a great book!.......2006-09-09

Having assumed that I had read countless volumes of Native American history, here I find another compelling book that brings anger and frustration. All I can say is that I am on a mission to learn more and more about Mr. Peltier. Many books that I have read before this one did not shed the kind of light on him that was deserved. I have to admit that other AIM followers had different views of him and it only makes me courious, and again I'll find another story. But that is the greatest thing about our American History, it has never been written with the truth at the heart of the writers pen. I can only hope that one day Mr. Peltier will be free, and whatever occurred during that day of confusion will be the truth, but by then it will only be another 100 years of history gone wrong. We will probably never know the truth.

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

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A new perspective
Great introduction to 2 somewhat parallel lives
Crazy Horse and Custer
Death in Battle - Death in Peace
Interesting

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Stephen E. Ambrose
Manufacturer: Anchor
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0385479662
Release Date: 1996-05-01

Book Description

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both became leaders in their societies at very early ages; both were stripped of power, in disgrace, and worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for an inevitable clash between two nations fighting for possession of the open prairie.

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A new perspective.......2007-08-23

I have been a big fan of Ambrose and have read most of his books. I grew up in Montana and was aware of "Custer's Battlefield". The name was changed from Custer's Last Stand to the Battle of the Bighorn. Very appropriate.
Ambrose opened my eyes to the policy of the government as it related to the "Indian Wars". He does a great job in positioning both Custer and Crazy Horse throughout their lives and how they were destined to meet in SE Montana.

This book helps me understand how the Native Americans were treated and mistreated during the opening of the west.

If you are a history fan, I encourage you to read Stephen Ambose's works. His details allow you to put yourself in the shoes of an observer to history. Check out Undaunted Courage if you want to see the world through the eyes of Lewis and Clark.

Great introduction to 2 somewhat parallel lives.......2007-06-10

I went into this book primariliy interested in crazy horse, yet by about half way through i was captivated with custer. Many of Mr. Ambrose's detractors say he stretches the facts. This could easily be true, i am in no way an expert on either crazy horse nor custer. Yet when i walk away from this book i dont remember many facts but more so feel as though i have a sense of who these two individuals were and how they operated in their respective worlds. If i was writing a dissertation on the topic i probably wouldnt cite this as a source, at the same time i think this is a great introduction book to crazy horse, custer, and the indian wars. Overall its a captiviating and fun read, enjoy!

Crazy Horse and Custer.......2007-01-09

Excellent book-goes into depth about both of their lives and the parallels between them.

Death in Battle - Death in Peace.......2006-08-30

They are books like those written by Stephen Ambrose which keep the flame of my interest in reading of times and events of long ago burning. Some have accused Ambrose of taking too many liberties with the facts. To those I would say, Bah Humbug! This book is well written and worthy of the readers time, unless, of course, you are a "fact-checker", in which case the original sources, to the extent they even exist, might be more to your liking. For Orginary Joe's, like me, Mr. Ambrose has provided a good deal of reading entertainment and information. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to be transported in time and place to the high plains during the Indian Wars.

Interesting.......2006-08-04

Great study of two complex personalities. I never realized what a mysterious figure Crazy Horse was, and his integral role at the Little Big Horn. Ambrose, as usual, does phenomenal research and his gift of prose make this book a pleasure.

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Beautiful art, distant voice
The girl who loved wild horses
Not a hit at my house
An excellent book for horse lovers and lovers of art
A horse is a horse, of course of course

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

Manufacturer: Aladdin
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For most people, being swept away in a horse stampede during a raging thunderstorm would be a terrifying disaster. For the young Native American girl in Paul Goble's 1979 Caldecott-winning masterpiece, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, it is a blessing. Although she loves her people, this girl has a much deeper, almost sacred connection to her equine friends. The storm gives her the opportunity to fulfill her dream--to live in a beautiful land among the wild horses she loves.

With brilliant, stylized illustrations and simple text, Paul Goble tells the story of a young woman who follows her heart, and the family that respects and accepts her uniqueness. Considering how difficult it is for some communities to allow friendships to grow between people of different cultures, this village's support for the girl's companions of choice is admirable. Goble's bold paintings reflect this noble open-mindedness. The young horse fanatic of the house will joyfully add this book to his or her collection. Children are passionate people; they will relate. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

Book Description

"There was a girl in the village who loved horses... She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed. People noticed that she understood horses in a special way."

And so begins the story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. With simple text and brilliant illustrations. Paul Goble tells how she eventually becomes one of them to forever run free.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful art, distant voice.......2006-09-04

I have to argee with a previous reviewer who commented on the weakness of the narrative voice in _The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses_: it is just too distant and does not draw children in as many other stories do. Graphically it has a Native American "feel" to it, which helps the weak writing, which is why I gave it 4 stars. A better collection of Native stories is Joseph Bruhac's _Dog People: Native Dog Stories_.

The girl who loved wild horses .......2005-12-20

The book I read is called The girl who loved wild horses. The girl who loved wild horses is for younger children under 8. It is about a girl that lived with wild horses. In a terrible storm the horses get scared and run away into the wild horse country. Since she does not know the way home how will she survive? I would give this book 3 stars.

Not a hit at my house.......2005-07-29

Halfway into the story, my kids asked if we could read something else. I suspect this may be a book that appeals more to adults than to children. The art work is beautiful and the plot worthwhile, but the narrative voice is so distant and emotionless--I expect that is probably what turned my kids off. The girl, the tribe, and the animals don't have names. The piece reads like a prologue rather than a story.

An excellent book for horse lovers and lovers of art.......2005-05-31

What I want to focus on about this book is the high quality, truly amazing artwork. I've never seen anything like this anywhere, surely the artist has a style all his own. I won't retell the story but want to also point out that the pictures actually tell the story without even reading the words. My daughter is only six and I read her the story and asked her questions as I read to see if she could predict what would happen next (she uses picture clues.) She answered the questions correctly.
Most of the pages backgrounds are white which is usually "against the rules" but I believe it was for dramatic effect for the blackness on the few pages that deal with the thunderstorm part of the story.
The moral of story of THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES shows us that if we pursue what we truly love long enough and with all our heart we will achieve it. Truly an inspiration, this exceptional book was the winner of the Caldecott Medal for 1979.

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A horse is a horse, of course of course.......2004-06-26

The ultimate girl/horse story. There are plenty of tales in which a young girl bonds with a very special horse. This is the rare book in which the girl not only bonds with a horse but, in the end, becomes one herself (as well as that horse's mate). Paul Goble made quite a career out of telling Native American folktales in picture book form. In this particular story, a girl's love for four-legged beasts is taken to its logical extreme.

In this book, a girl once cared for her tribe's horses during the day. She would water them and find them places to feed. One day, a storm rose while the girl slept and the horses grazed. In a panic, the animals began to stampede away, and it was only by her skill that the girl was able to climb aboard one. When at last they stopped, the girl met the leader of all the wild horses, a beautiful spotted stallion. The girl continued to live with the creatures until one day she was successfully captured by members of her own tribe. She was happy to see her parents once more, but begged to return to the horses. The tribe agreed and each year she would return briefly to give the people a new colt. When she didn't return one year, riders swore that they saw a black mare that greatly resembled the girl, now the mate of the spotted stallion. The book ends with a Navaho's song about his horse and Black Elk (an Oglala Sioux)?s dream about a stallion's song.

I was a little shocked that this tale never identified the tribe to which the girl belonged. Since, however, this is an original story and not a retelling of a classic Native American tale (or so the book would lead you to believe) I wasn't too perturbed by the omission. After all, when people tell stories about themselves, they rarely identify their nationality or allegiance. In this book, the girl's tribe is referred to simply as "the people". If you've ever seen a Paul Goble book before, you know what to expect when you read this. His characters are fairly featureless, though as an artist he spends a significant bit of time detailing their clothing, hair, weapons, homes, etc. He expresses a great love of color in all his pictures, and it's quite enjoyable to flip through the shots of multicolored horses. In its construction, this book is incredibly lovely. But the question that came to my mind while reading it was, how interesting will children find this tale? For those kids obsessed by horses, I think this book will go over like gangbusters. After all, as horse-love goes, this girl is an extreme example. In other ways, the book is a bit dull. When you illustrate a tale in which emotions are not visible on the characters, you're going to lose those readers that like seeing happy and sad expressions. It's a style choice on the part of the author/illustrator and while I respect it I cannot wholly recommend it.

Just the same, it's a lovely book to flip through. Just know that it is an original Native American tale and not a retelling. For every child that has imagined running away and joining a band of wild animals, this is the perfect story to read. A lovely lively concoction.

Sacred Legacy: Edward S Curtis And The North American Indian

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Absolutely Beautiful
perhaps a generation too late
"Take a good look. We're not going to see this kind of thing much longer. It already belongs to the past".
This book is a treasure

Sacred Legacy: Edward S Curtis And The North American Indian

Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Edward S. Curtis: The Great Warriors
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The North American Indians
Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race
Songs of the Earth: A Timeless Collection of Native American Wisdom

ASIN: 0743203747

Book Description

One hundred years ago, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a thirty-year odyssey to photograph and document the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America. This monumental project was hailed by The New York Herald as "the most gigantic undertaking since the making of the King James edition of the Bible."

In this landmark volume, almost 200 of the finest examples of Cu rt is's photographs are reproduced with startling fidelity to his original prints. Produced to the very highest standards, Sacred Legacy presents Curtis's work without compromise for the first time in the modern era. Taken together, these profound images constitute no less than the core and essence of his life's work. Until now, virtually none of Curtis's photographs have been reproduced in a manner that captures the clarity and richness of his original master prints. In Sacred Legacy, his greatest images are reproduced from the finest source materials available -- a significant number from breathtaking platinum, gold, and silver prints. All have been carefully selected for pub lication and for an accompanying international exhibition by Curtis authority Christopher Cardozo.

In an effort to bring a new understanding to Curtis's monumental work, Sacred Legacy was developed according to the organizing principles set forth by the great photographer himself. Following the path la id out in his 20 volume magnum opus, The North American Indian, geographic regions are presented separately and individual tribes within each region are depicted and described. Interspersed between these sections are compelling portrayals of those aspects of life common to all tribes, among them spirituality. ceremony, arts, and the activities of daily life.

With The North American Indian, Curtis achieved the impossible: an extraordinary 20 -volume set of handmade books composed of nearly 4,000 pages of text and 2,200 images presenting more than 80 of North America's Native nations. Luminous, iconic, and profoundly revealing, the pictures that form the heart of the original project are reproduced here in Sacred Legacy. These extraordinary photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture.

Sacred Legacy is a fitting testament to the profound beauty, meaning, and complexity of Indian life and to Edward S. Curtis -- a man whose wisdom, passion, and strength drove him to devote thirty years to capturing the nobility and pride of the Native peoples of North America. The photographs in this brilliant volume represent the most important presentation of Curtis's work since the publication of the first volume of Me North American Indian nearly a century ago.

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Absolutely Beautiful.......2007-08-21

I absolutely love this book, the photagraphs are stunning. As a Native American of the Plateau Tribes, I love to browse through the photographs and see the images of my ancestors. My family consists of many different tribal Nations, from Coastal to Plateau and Plains, so it is nice to see the faces and the land as well as the clothing during the time these images were taken.

perhaps a generation too late.......2007-06-20

The many photographs have a hazy sepia tinge that somehow adds to the distancing from us, the present day readers. Curtis did an amazing and sympathetic photographic survey of native Americans in the early 20th century. His collection epitomises the changing view of natives, to the broader American society. No longer were they portrayed as bloodthirsty savages. Instead, Curtis took care to show many natives in peaceful surroundings. Often, getting on with everyday chores. A distinguishing aspect is that few of the photos show them brandishing weapons.

Keep in mind that even by the earliest photos, there were very few "wild" natives left in the US. Years earlier, they had been defeated by the US army, and the survivors often relegated to reservations. So what the photos show are domesticated peoples. Nomadic no longer, even if their forebears had been so just a generation ago.

In this sense, Curtis was a generation too late. Had he been a contemporary of Matthew Brady, he might have given us a visual legacy of peoples that were more unassimilated. Though of course he would have risked real injury to himself, in doing so. Still, we should not complain. Curtis did well with what he had, in the era he inhabited.

"Take a good look. We're not going to see this kind of thing much longer. It already belongs to the past". .......2005-07-27

Edward Sheriff Curtis dedicated his life's work to documenting the customs and lifeways of the Native American peoples of North America. This extraordinary book includes some of the best photographic examples from Curtis' twenty volume masterpiece, "The North American Indian," one of the most significant representations of traditional indigenous culture ever produced.

Curtis was one of two official photographers for the 1899 Harriman expedition to Alaska. On his return, he stopped in northern Montana, accompanied by George Bird Grinell, editor of Forest and Stream. There he witnesses the deeply sacred Sundance of the Piegan and Blackfoot tribes, a sight which transformed his life. Grinell said to him at that time, "Take a good look. We're not going to see this kind of thing much longer. It already belongs to the past". It became clear to him then, that he was to record, with pen and camera, the life of the North American Indian. By the time the last volume appeared in 1930, little remained of the ancient traditions of the peoples he photographed.

Beginning in 1900 and continuing over the next thirty years, Edward S. Curtis, sometimes called the "Shadow Catcher" by tribes' people, took over 40,000 photographs and recorded ethnographic information from over eighty American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people in the North to the Hopi people of the Southwest. In the end, the work comprised twenty textual volumes and twenty portfolios with over 2,000 illustrations.

"Sacred Legacy: Edward S Curtis And The North American Indian" was compiled and published to honor the 100th anniversary of Curtis's project to photograph the North America's indigenous peoples, and is a sacred legacy. This impressive volume beautifully reproduces in luminous images 200 of Curtis's greatest photographs from the finest source materials available - a significant number from platinum, gold and silver prints. Christopher Cardozo, an authority on Curtis, carefully selected the photographs for publication and for the accompanying exhibition. Writers who contribute their work here include: Joseph D. Horse Capture, N. Scott Momaday, and Anne Makepeace.

The photographs are organized by tribes and culture areas, encompassing the Great Plains, California, the Southwest, Plateau Region and Woodlands, Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. These reproductions represent an artistic masterpiece worthy of any collection. This volume is a fitting tribute to Curtis's genius.

"The passing of every man and woman means the passing of some tradition, some knowledge of sacred rights possessed by no other." Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
JANA

This book is a treasure.......2001-04-07

The works of Edward S. Curtis are monumental and beautiful. This book reproduces them with stunning clarity capturing the luminescence of his orotones remarkably well. The text serves to convey the rich meaning behind the photographs. For anyone interested in photography, art, or the story of the Native Americans, this is a treasure not to be missed.

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Sky Dogs
Jane Yolen
Manufacturer: Harcourt
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Storey's Illustrated Guide to 96 Horse Breeds of North America (Storeys Illustrated Guide)

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Terrific book!
Perfect for any with an affection for horses and an interest in the breeds
Horses of North America
What a stupid title
did you know there were 96 horse breeds in north america?

Storey's Illustrated Guide to 96 Horse Breeds of North America (Storeys Illustrated Guide)
Judith Dutson
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ASIN: 1580176127

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Horse enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels are fascinated by the history, characteristics, and abilities of various breeds. Unfortunately, most current breed books are written for European readers and feature horses that are rare or nonexistent in North America. A truly complete book on all the special horses of North America has never been available—until now. Here is the most comprehensive guide, featuring in-depth profiles and photographs, to 96 breeds that call North America home.

Readers will find homegrown favorites, such as the Morgan, Appaloosa, and Quarter Horse, along with the less-known Nakota, McCurdy Plantation, and Florida Cracker horses. They’ll also meet the imported breeds that have influenced native bloodlines and become part of the fabric of our history, such as the Thoroughbred, Arabian, and Percheron, as well as more exotic introductions such as the Mangalarga Marchador and the Selle Français. Covering color breeds, light horses, heavy horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules, author Judith Dutson offers fascinating insight into the purpose each was bred for and where it is now found in North America.

More than seven million horses inhabit North America today, with purposes ranging from racing to pleasure, farm and ranch work, shows, search and rescue, and police work. Every region has its breed(s) and every breed has its story — and its fans. This book speaks to all of them, and presents the incredible history of the horse in North America, breed by breed.

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Terrific book!.......2007-02-09

This book was just what we were looking for. The photographs are gorgeous, and the text is informational, including topics such as breed characteristics, conformation, gait, color, breed registry, history of the breed, and additional interesting facts about each breed. This book is a "must-have" for anyone's equine book collection.

Perfect for any with an affection for horses and an interest in the breeds.......2006-06-05

Judith Dutson's 96 Horse Breeds Of North America pairs stunning color photos by Bob Langrish with a fine survey of each of the 96 horse breeds of North America. Sidebars of information include height, place of original and special qualities for at-a-glance reference, while more extensive paragraphs on breed characteristics, history, conformation and color provide in-depth details. Perfect for any with an affection for horses and an interest in the breeds.

Horses of North America.......2006-02-03

I agree with the reviewer who said that this is not a very good title. A better title would be Horses of NA or American Horses, or some such. But a great book with a bad title is still a great book, and THIS is a great book. The photographs are marvelous -- a word I rarely use. They're National Geographic quality. And the price! I would have guessed a hardback would be $60 at least. I don't know how they can sell it for so little. If you're a horse buff, you'll want this book.

What a stupid title.......2006-01-17

This is overall a great book, with a really stupid title, don't let it deceive you if you are looking for a great book on horse breeds. Without seeing the book, I even thought to myself, "How did they ever come up with 96 breeds from North America!? I can't think of that many." As it turns out, the book is filled with breeds, the majority of which DO NOT originate from North America at all...strange. For example, Dutch Warmbloods, Halflingers, even Arabians, you get the idea. I suppose they really mean 96 breeds which are popular among horse owners in North America, but that doesn't make a really good title. The book contains a great deal of lovely photographs, but the format is nothing exceptional compared to breed books I have seen before. However, it's merit is featuring many breeds, exclusive to North America, which are often excluded from the books, such as the Shackleford, Sulphur, Pryor Mountain, Nokota and more.

did you know there were 96 horse breeds in north america?.......2006-01-15

I saw this book in my locle book store I looked though it I absaluty loved it, it tels you all the horse breeds just in north america. Horse enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels are fascinated by the history, characteristics, and abilities of various breeds. Unfortunately, most current breed books are written for European readers and feature horses that are rare or nonexistent in North America. A truly complete book on all the special horses of North America has never been available-until now. Here is the most comprehensive guide, featuring in-depth profiles and photographs, to 96 breeds that call North America home. Readers will find homegrown favorites, such as the Morgan, Appaloosa, and Quarter Horse, along with the less-known Nakota, McCurdy Plantation, and Florida Cracker horses. They'll also meet the imported breeds that have influenced native bloodlines and become part of the fabric of our history, such as the Thoroughbred, Arabian, and Percheron, as well as more exotic introductions such as the Mangalarga Marchador and the Selle Français. Covering color breeds, light horses, heavy horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules, author Judith Dutson offers fascinating insight into the purpose each was bred for and where it is now found in North America. More than seven million horses inhabit North America today, with purposes ranging from racing to pleasure, farm and ranch work, shows, search and rescue, and police work. Every region has its breed(s) and every breed has its story - and its fans. This book speaks to all of them, and presents the incredible history of the horse in North America, breed by breed. I love this book its really great info if you a novis-expert you would love this book.

The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book)

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Crazy Visions in the Sky
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Beautifully illustrated Native American tale.

The Gift of the Sacred Dog (Reading Rainbow Book)
Paul Goble
Manufacturer: Aladdin
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Binding: Paperback

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A brave boy goes into the hills and prays for help for his people. A rider on a magnificent animal comes to him and says: "This animal is called the Sacred Dog. He can do many things your dogs can do and also more...He is as the wind: gentle but sometimes frightening." The clouds close and suddenly one by one countless Sacred Dogs course down from the sky. And so the courage of one determined boy is rewarded by the Great Spirit: The horse, or Sacred Dog, is given to his tribe.

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Crazy Visions in the Sky.......2007-03-12

Man, I love anything with crazy visions in the sky - particularly the first chapter of the Biblical book Ezekiel - but the vision in this book is a neat thing to read about too. I just don't get why the buffalo was referenced at the end. Must be a Native American custom to end all stories with some mentioning of a buffalo.

I'm sorry to say I still like non-sacred dogs more than sacred dogs, but I have a very good reason for doing so. Sacred dogs are much more expensive.

Great.......2006-03-15

I loved this book when I was little, and I still love it now. It's great to see that it's still around. It's a wonderful story with even better illustrations for children and adults.

Beautifully illustrated Native American tale........1999-08-04

Children and adults will enjoy the colorful illustrations and tale of how the Native Americans acquired the horse. Lovely!

The Black Stallion Legend (Black Stallion)

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The Black Stallion Legend
The Culminating Triumph of the Series!
The Black Stallion Legend
Good beginning, terrible ending. . .
Good beginning, terrible ending. . .

The Black Stallion Legend (Black Stallion)
Walter Farley
Manufacturer: Yearling
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ASIN: 0679826998
Release Date: 2005-05-24

Book Description

Alec Ramsey has fled Hopeful Farm in order to alleviate his grief over Pam’s sudden death. He and the Black are aimlessly wandering through the Arizona desert when they hear an amazing Native American legend: The end of the world is near, but help is promised from a rider on a black horse.
Alec shrugs off the wild tale–until disaster strikes from the sky. Suddenly the fate of an entire native tribe is in his hands . . . and the mighty Black is faced with a challenge greater than any race!

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The Black Stallion Legend .......2005-12-16

In this book Alec and the Black take off , after a tragic death that rocks Alec's world. They end up in Arizona, where Alec sets the Black free. Alec stumbles upon an Indian boy who helps him out and tells him of a prophecy. The ending of the world and that a rider on a black horse will come to lead his people to the new world. When the Black returns to Alec the boy thinks Alec and The Black are the ones he mentioned in the prophecy. The boy leaves and Alec and the Black have to find their own way to the Indian village, going though some obstacles to get there

Later on earthquakes strike and Alec questions if the world really is over. At first Alec doesn't care but soon realizes that he must go on, and live his life. He has to stop running from the pain of his loss and live.

The end was a bit odd. The book was good though there were many sad parts Walter Farley did a great job, probably because he was writing from his own lost. This is the last Black stallion book to feature Alec that was written by Walter Farley , as the Young Black Stallion was a prequel

The Culminating Triumph of the Series!.......2005-06-23

This last in the famous series about a young boy and his beloved racehorse is deeper and much more "adult-like" in nature than the books that preceeded it. It shows Alex (the young boy from the begining of the series) as an adult faced with trememdous issues and obstacles. I remember when I first read this book as a teenager I cried at the beginning and I cried again at the end, but for totally different and contrasting reasons. Even though I loved the beginning books, which are much more innocent and happy in their nature, I ended up loving this one the best because not only did it bring about a heart warming conclusion to a classic series, but the writing, in and of its own in this particular book, is expert.

The Black Stallion Legend.......2004-03-29

This book is really the last of the series, because the Young Black Stallion is kind of like a prequel. Along with The Black Stallion's Ghost, Mystery (my personal fave) and The Young Black Stallion, this book was one of the "weird" ones. (I have heard about the Island Stallion Races being odd too, but I have just ordered that one off Ebay and haven't read it yet. I had the series as a kid and got rid of them and just recently had to buy them all back. haha). The story kind of has nothing to do with horse racing and the fairy tale story that the series started off with. No, Farley's writing style changed a LOT at the end of the series, and this book was really odd. It freaked me out when I read it at the age of 13, and now I am 19 and find it hard to beleive that this book, along with Ghost, Mystery, and Young, was meant for children ages 9-12... it is apocolyptic, confusing, depressing, and gets under your skin. At times, even drug-induced. I wonder why Farley made the book end so horribly?

Good beginning, terrible ending. . ........2003-05-08

I've read all the books in the Black Stallion series, and this is the one I happen to like the least. The Black Stallion legend started out OK, but it turned out to be a very depressing, and eventually unnerving book, especially since it was the last one in the series. The preceding book, The Black Stallion and the Girl, was wonderful. Alec and a girl named Pam meet and fall in love, and the book ends on a hopeful note that Pam will someday return to Hopeful farm and marry Alec when she feels that the timing is right. But in this book, Pam gets killed in a car accident in Europe, and Alec has a nervous breakdown from his grief and the stress of the racing business. As a result, he simply ends up taking off across the country with the Black.
The second half of this book reads more like something out of the "Left Behind" series than one of Farley's books, with planet-wide earthquakes and meteor strikes. And the ending wasn't very clear - it left the reader puzzled and bewildered instead of a definite, tidy ending. Alec was on the phone with Henry, telling him where he is and that he and the Black are fine. When Alec feels an earthquake tremor, he asks if Henry is still there and there's no answer. And that's how it all ends. I think Farley should have left a good thing alone with the Black Stallion and the Girl, and not finished off a wonderful series with such a depressing tale.

Good beginning, terrible ending. . ........2003-05-08

What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?

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What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?

What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?
Richard Van Camp
Manufacturer: Children's Book Press
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"I'm a stranger to horses and horses are strangers to me," admits the author/narrator at the beginning of this delightful tale of discovery. Members of the Dogrib nation from Canada, Van Camp's people use dogs instead of horses. Yet Van Camp has always been curious about horses. So he sets off on a playful search for "the most beautiful thing about horses," talking to family, friends, and even artist George Littlechild, who is a Plains Cree and knows something about horses. The answers Van Camp gets range from zany to profound: Horses can run sideways. Horses have secrets. Horses can always find their way home. Littlechild's bold and fanciful paintings perfectly capture Van Camp's playful vision of the world.

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What's the most beautiful thing you know about horses?.......2000-05-28

It's forty below in the Northwest Territories of Canada - so cold the ravens won't fly & Richard can't go outside. He decides to ask his family & friends the question that became the title to this book. Their answers bring a whole other world into light. Brilliantly illustrated by George Littlechild from the Plains Cree Nation, this humorous quest of a youngster's mind during a long winter's day, brings out the silly & the insightful. Makes a lovely gift!

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