Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs
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Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs by David Cruise
The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America's mustangs captured the heart of the country. In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food. Shocked and angered by this gruesome discovery, she vowed to find a way to stop the cruel round-ups, a resolution that led to a life-long battle that would pit her against ranchers and powerful politicians--but eventually win her support and admiration around the world. This is the first biography to tell her courageous true story. Like Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, or Temple Grandin, Velma Johnston dedicated her life to public awareness and protection of animals. Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs follows Velma from her childhood, in which she was disfigured by polio, to her dangerous vigilante-style missions to free captured horses and document round-ups, through the innovative and exhaustive grassroots campaign which earned her the nickname Wild Horse Annie and led to Congress passing the Wild Horse Annie Bill, to her friendship with renowned children's author and horse-lover Marguerite Henry. A powerful combination of adventure, history, and biography, Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs beautifully captures the romance and magic of wild horses and the character of the strong-willed woman who made their survival her legacy.Alison Griffiths teaches film and media studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Carceal Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Twentieth-Century America (2016) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002) are both published by Columbia University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781416553366 |
| ISBN 10 | 1416553363 |
| Title | Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs |
| Author | David Cruise |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2013-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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