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You'll find what you love here at MustangingTheWest.com!
As significant as the mustang's
value is its legacy. It has become a glorious and apropos symbol of American
history, and quite aptly portrays the unrelenting spirit of freedom.
Which is why the magnificent Mustang
has been chosen as the theme motif for this website.
This site
is dedicated to those who love Horses & The Western Life.
On January 14th, Madeleine Pickens Went With A Crew from ABC's Good Morning America
To the Calico Complex in Northern Nevada where they rounded up 51 wild horses. Click here to read what they witnessed.
To See What You Can Do To Help Save Them, Click Here...
As a hardy and enduring breed, mustangs have always possessed the ability to work hard and endure tremendous tests of stamina.
Lewis and Clark in fact were so impressed with the mustangs that had been given them by the Shoshone that they gave them a lot of the credit for the success of their expedition. In the 2004 movie based on the life and times of real-life endurance rider,
Frank Hopkins, Hidalgo, starring Viggo Mortensen, the special talents
of
the mustang were documented when a
Spanish mustang, possessing great stamina, ran the Ocean of Fire race through the Arabian Desert.
A survival race through 3,000 miles full of peril and traps, the mustang
not only defeated a rare and most valuable thoroughbred Arabian horse, amazingly he did so without injury.
Remember The Excitement? Remember The Drama?t
Watch It Again! Make Hidalgo a part of your personal video library.
Why Writers of Historical Fiction Bear a Weighty Responsibility
Fact-checking is such an important part of writing historical fiction - making sure the details we put into our stories are accurate to the time period we write about.
In writing my novel, The Sacrifice of the Sage Hen, which came out last year, I found I had more time invested in researching and checking facts than in actually writing.
The time devoted was well worth it, though. I really wanted my readers to come away rubbing their chin, saying, "Hmm, I didn't know that," rather than "That just ain't so. Does she think I'm dumb?"
Some of the best books I ever read were ones from which I personally benefited. Partly because the setting and details were so realistic that I could slide myself right into the setting as if I were one of the characters. Also because I gained more knowledge of the time period that I was interested in - cowboys & cowgirls, long Montana skies, sagebrush, longhorns and cattle drives.
Since the details were accurate and true, I was more intimately involved with and could empathize with the protagonist and other characters.
When I write, I try to stick to some hard-and-fast rules that all historical writers must observe.
From Madeleine Pickens on Newest Wild Horse Roundup
Another BLM Wild Horse Roundup:
Removal of 550 horses in eastern Nevada set to begin next month
Just When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse – Government Claims More Than 670,000 Acres Can Only Support 100 to 200 Horses
Dear Friends:
We told you this was going to be a long, hard fight – thank you for sticking with us to take action on each and every unacceptable assault by the Obama Administration on our wild horses. We are up against the deeply entrenched special interests who want wild horses removed from public lands so they can conduct business as usual. That means cheap usage of our public land for their private profits at the horses’ and taxpayers’ expense.
It’s time to get public comments in on another large removal of wild horses which is planned by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This time the BLM intends to remove over 500 of the estimated 645 horses living in or near the “Eagle Herd Management Area” in eastern Nevada outside of Ely. While 500 individuals is fewer than the 2,500 horses currently being rounded up and removed from the Calico Complex in northwest Nevada (click here for Calico update), the Eagle roundup is even more ludicrous because it is 125,000 acres larger than Calico, but the government will only allow 100 horses to remain! In Calico, by contrast, 500-900 horses will be left behind in the approximately 500,000-acre public land complex.
The proposed Eagle HMA plan puts these wild horses at great risk because the BLM is reducing the number of horses to dangerously low numbers, which could threaten the viability of the herd. Many horse advocates believe this is the BLM’s method of systematically dwindling horse population numbers down to untenable levels in order to ultimately eradicate these American living legends from public lands.
The Obama Administration is continuing the Bush Administration policy of targeting wild horses in order to serve special cattle and other industry interests. Under President Obama's oversight, the BLM is actually accelerating the pace of wild horse removals, with 12,000 horses targeted for capture from our public lands in Fiscal Year 2010 alone. The majority of these horses will be sent to government holding facilities, where they will join the 35,000 wild horses already stockpiled at taxpayer expense.
* Bob Abbey, BLM Director
* Sylvia Baca, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior
* Josh Cardin - Chief of Staff, Senator Ron Wyden
* BLM ELY Field Office
* Barack Obama - c/o Mr. Carson, Executive Office of the President
* Christopher Thompson, Chief of Staff, Senator Diane Feinstein
Thank you for Taking Action in Saving America's Mustangs. Please send this to all of your friends and everyone in your database. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Kind Regards,
Madeleine Pickens
Save The Wild Horse!
Disappointment Valley... A Modern Day Western - Trailer - YouTube
We at MustangingTheWest.com love horses and all animals. We
believe they are our charge, our responsibility. So once a month, we
will be featuring an organization that has dedicated their efforts to rescuing
and helping those who cannot help themselves. If you know of such an
organization, it would be a kindness to pass their name along to us.
Read an Article in the San Francisco Chronicle on the latest attempts to stop the next wild horse roundup in Nevada.
Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, (http://www.MadeleinePickens.com) is currently waging a desperate campaign to save those thousands of feral mustangs who have been rounded up by the Bureau of Land Management, herded into close and unsafe holding corrals, and kept there for years. Read This Article To Learn More ...
Dallas & Donna Keen, who run a rescue operation
for race horses injured, abused or who are no longer wanted. See how YOU can help support the organization, and help find
homes for these exquisite horses! Read More ...
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Hi. I'm Susie, and I'm in Missouri.
I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and it just so happens that I love horses and anything related to the great American west. I raised 5 kids of my own, and 6 of my husband's. For 11 years, I home-schooled the last 4 of them. Now all of them are grown and living life on their own. I also have ...
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As significant as the mustang's
value is its legacy. It has become a glorious and apropos symbol of American
history, and quite aptly portrays the unrelenting spirit of freedom. 
The Mighty, Mighty Mustang
were so realistic that I could slide myself right into the setting as if I were one of the characters. Also because I gained more knowledge of the time period that I was interested in - cowboys & cowgirls, long Montana skies, sagebrush, longhorns and cattle drives.
Hi. I'm Susie, and I'm in Missouri.
I'm a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and it just so happens that I love horses and anything related to the great American west. I raised 5 kids of my own, and 6 of my husband's. For 11 years, I home-schooled the last 4 of them. Now all of them are grown and living life on their own. 