Format:
Book
Title:
Wild Horse Annie : Velma Johnston and her fight to save the mustang / Alan Kania.
Author:
Kania, Alan J.
Call Number:
639.979665 Johnston
Publisher, Date:
Reno : University of Nevada Press, c2012.
Description:
xiv, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
In 1950 Velma Johnston, a shy Nevada ranch wife, came upon a horse trailer leaking blood. When she discovered the destination of the trailer and its occupants--a trio of terrified and badly injured wild horses--she launched a crusade that eventually reached the halls of Congress and changed the way westerners regard and treat the bands of mustangs and burros that roam their region.--From publisher description.
Subjects:
Johnston, Annie Bronn.
Mustang -- Conservation -- History -- 20th century.
Wild horses -- Conservation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Wild burros -- Conservation -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Public lands -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
Horsemen and horsewomen -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Wildlife conservationists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Contents:
Wild Horse Blood -- Rounding Up Newspapers and Politicians -- The Final Days of Legal Mustanging -- Going It Alone for Charlie and the Horses -- Pryor Commitments -- Differences of Opinion -- Annie Returns to Washington, D.C. -- Unfinished Work -- The Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Area -- The "Howe Idaho Massacre" -- Annie Brings the World to Howe, Idaho -- Federal or State Law? -- Wild Horse Annie's Final Chapter -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
ISBN:
9780874178739 (cloth : alk. paper)
0874178738 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780874179170 (pbk.)
0874179173 (pbk.)