Life in the Saddle

Life in the Saddle

Author: Frank Collinson

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1997-03-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780806129235

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Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872, when he was seventeen, to work on Will Noonan’s ranch near Castroville. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at the age of seventy-nine began writing about the Old West he knew and loved. He had a flair for writing, a phenomenal memory, and a passion for truth that is evident in what he wrote and said. His writings for Ranch Romances, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations have been arranged here in roughly chronological order, so that their importance for frontier history is readily apparent. Collinson ranged the West in his writings as he did in person, telling of the last tragic days of buffalo hunting on the Plains; clashes between hunters or cowboys and the Plains Indians; the character of trail drivers; and the definitive nature of violence, particularly at gun-point. J. Frank Dobie said of Collinson: "In the realm of frontier chronicles, the writing of educated Englishmen. . . men with the perspective of civilization, with imagination, and a lust for primitive nature, stand out. To this class of men belongs Frank Collinson."


The Escape Artist

The Escape Artist

Author: Matt Seaton

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1841151041

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For a time there were four bikes in Matt Seaton's life, a training bike, a track bike, a mountain bike and a racing bike. His evenings were spent doing the miles on the roads between South London and the North Downs. Weekends were taken up with Club meetings, road races and time trials - rides that took him to cold village halls at dawn and out onto the empty bypasses of Southern England.


A Fisherman in the Saddle

A Fisherman in the Saddle

Author: Julian Roup

Publisher: Jacana Media

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781919931241

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Follows the journey of the author as he reflects back on his life-long quest to find "a place of his own" through the two sources of renewal in his life: horseback riding and fishing.


Life in the Saddle

Life in the Saddle

Author: Alwyn Torenbeek

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1742536824

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'It doesn't matter if there are four thousand people watching or just four – you're a horseman, roughrider, entertainer. At that moment, rodeo has you bitten and it doesn't let you go. You just want another ride. I remember them all and how it all started.' Alywn Torenbeek's – the Kokotunga Kid – left his outback hometown at fourteen, looking for adventure. He took with him a bushman's spirit, an uncanny natural ability for horseriding and a determination to succeed. By the time he was 21, he was a national and international rodeo champion. When fate put an end to his roughriding career, Alwyn went on to be a stockman, drover and station manager. A devoted family man, he was encouraged to take up endurance riding by his great friend, the legendary R.M. Williams, and is still competing more than four decades later. A riveting tale of adventure, romance, tradegy and mateship. Alwyn's story is also a tribute to the outback and the characters who make it special. From Winton to Wanganui, this is the ride of a lifetime. 'A non-stop adventure and an amazing insight into a by-gone era.' Queensland Times


Heavenly Horse Sense

Heavenly Horse Sense

Author: Rebecca E. Ondov

Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0736944192

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Following on the hooves of her well-received book "Horse Tales from Heaven" Ondov offers 50 brand-new devotions gleaned from her years of working from the saddle in Montana.


Blood on the Saddle

Blood on the Saddle

Author: Rafael Reig

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 9781852424862

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Dickens & Clot Investigations Ltd, a detective agency in a waterlogged, semi-buried Madrid of the near future, has a couple of unusual specialities: helping distraught authors and taking on Manex Chopeitia. The authors are frantically in search of characters who?ve quit the page and assumed a life of their own; Manex Chopeitia is the Big Brother of the genetic-engineering company that rules over both the capital and the destiny of the US-Iberian Federation. With the help of a cowboy sidekick, on the loose from an unfinished manuscript, Carlos Clot is on a personal quest to put some dodgy people (both ?real? and ?fictional?) in their place.


Trail Ride

Trail Ride

Author: Bonnie Bryant

Publisher: Skylark

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 030782604X

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Lisa’s on the trail ride of her life! Lisa Atwood and Carole Hanson are going to the Bar None Ranch to see their friend Kate. Of course, the Bar None means horses, but this year there’s also a cool archaeological dig going on nearby, and the girls are frequent visitors to the site. They’re having a perfect trip–and what better way to enjoy it than with a bareback midnight trail ride to watch a meteor shower? On the trail ride, Carole falls seriously ill, and Lisa has to leave her to get help. But there are other people out in the desert that night, and they don’t want Lisa to go anywhere. Now Lisa must ride for her life–and Carole’s.


Last of the Saddle Tramps

Last of the Saddle Tramps

Author: Messanie Wilkins

Publisher: Long Riders Guild Press

Published: 2001-08-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 9781590480434

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Historically the world of equestrian travel has contained an exciting mixture of unique men and women. Some are adventurers seeking danger from the back of their horses. Others are travelers discovering the beauties of the countryside they slowly ride through. A few are searching for inner truths while cantering across desolate parts of the planet. Then there is Messanie Wilkins. She was acting on orders from the Lord! In 1954, at the age of 63, Wilkins had plenty to worry about. A destitute spinster in ill health, Wilkins had been told she had less than two years left to live, provided she spent them quietly. With no family ties, no money, and no future in her native Maine, Wilkins decided to take a daring step. Using the money she had made from selling homemade pickles, Wilkins bought a tired summer camp horse and made preparations to ride from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean. Yet before leaving she flipped a coin, asking God to direct her to go or not. When the coin came up heads several times in a row, one of America s most unlikely equestrian heroines set off. What followed was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable equestrian journeys. Accompanied by her faithful horse, Tarzan, Wilkins suffered through a host of obstacles including blistering deserts and freezing snow storms, yet never lost faith that she would complete her 7,000 mile odyssey. Last of the Saddle Tramps is thus the warm and humorous story of a humble American heroine bound for adventure and the Pacific Ocean. The classic tale is amply illustrated with photographs.


Ten Years in the Saddle

Ten Years in the Saddle

Author: William Woods Averell

Publisher: Stan Clark Military Books

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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The discovered memoirs of cavalryman William Woods Averell, has been considered an important addition to historic literature. His memoirs captures the mood of America during a decade of growth and destruction, through West Point, the Indian Wars, the expanding West, and the Civil War. To complete the story of Averell's life, the editors have added an introduction detailing his early years, as well as an epilogue recounting his controversial removal from command by General Philip Sheridan and his later career as an entrepreneur and diplomat.


Diane Crump

Diane Crump

Author: Mark Shrager

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 149303796X

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In 1968, a few women, mockingly labeled “jockettes” by a skeptical press, had begun demanding the right to apply for jockey licenses, citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination in hiring based on race, religion, sex, or national origin. Most of their applications were rejected by racing’s bureaucracy, which alleged that women were unqualified to participate due to “physical limitations” and “emotional instability.” Female jockeys who attempted to ride met with boycotts by male jockeys. Onto this uneven terrain stepped 20-year-old Diane Crump, who had long since demonstrated her riding proficiency during a thousand workout rides on a thousand difficult Thoroughbreds (“I basically got on all the horses that no one else wanted to ride"). On February 7, 1969, having been granted a permit to ride at Florida’s Hialeah Racetrack, Crump, surrounded by a protective phalanx of police officers, walked calmly toward the saddling enclosure as she endured heckles from the crowd. Diane’s mount would not earn victory that day, but the young rider had earned a more fundamental prize: the right to compete in her chosen field. Just over a year later, on May 2, 1970, after 95 years and 1,055 all-male entrants, Diane Crump shattered tradition by becoming the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Over her career she amassed 235 wins. InDiane Crump: A Life in the Saddle, veteran turf writer Mark Shrager relies on Crump's own narrative, magazine and newspaper coverage, and numerous first-hand interviews to tell the story of an extraordinary athlete's life and career.