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2) Mustangs
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These wild, spirited horses have long inspired authors, photographers, and illustrators alike. Learn more about mustangs, from their origins to their current locations, in this fascinating book. Kids are fascinated by horses! These animals' beauty, strength, and close relationship to people make them a perennial favorite for young readers. Our Majestic Horses series introduces readers to some of the most famous horse breeds, both domestic and wild....
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"Champion cowboy Ben Smith is on trial for assault and battery, destruction of property, and intent to commit murder. His real troubles are just beginning. One of the last of the great American cowboys, Ben Smith is a three-time rodeo champion with one last chance to take a stand. Injured in a rodeo fall, he heads home at the age of forty to the Little Brawny Ranch, where he befriends the son of the Big Brawny's owner. Ben agrees to show little Jimmy...
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"Last Chance Mustang is the story of Samson, a formerly free-roaming, still wild-at-heart American mustang that was plucked from his mountainous Nevada home and thrown into the domestic horse world where he was brutalized and victimized. After years of abuse, Samson had evolved into a hateful and hated, maladjusted beast until the day he found his way to a rural Illinois farm, an ill-equipped owner, and one last chance. Mitch Bornstein's task was...
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The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know what it stands for: fierce independence, unbridled freedom, the bedrock ideals of the nation. From car ads to high school mascots, the wild horse--popularly known as the mustang--is the enduring icon of America. But in modern times it has become entangled in controversy and bureaucracy, and now its future is in question. In Wild Horse Country, New...
6) Free again
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Phantom stallion volume 5
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English
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Sam feels like a hero when she finds a home for a group of mustangs, but is overwhelmed with responsibilities when she agrees to help care for the horses.
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Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to its return with the conquistadors, its bloody battles on the old frontier, its iconic status in Buffalo Bill shows and early westerns, and its plight today as it makes its last stand on the vanishing range. With the Bureau of Land Management...
8) Hidalgo
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
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English
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In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of Fire, by one of the leading Arabian Sheiks. The race soon...
10) Spirit untamed
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father, and is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When a heartless wrangler plans to capture Spirit and his herd, Lucky and her friends set off on an epic...
11) Mustangs
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Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
1998
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English
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Surveys the history of the Mustang and its designs, engines, performance, and costs.
14) Mustang canyon
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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A young mustang is separated from its mother when a plane sweeps over the canyon and the horses run from the noise.
15) White Thunder
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Ozark Pub
Pub. Date
c1992
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English
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White Thunder saves a herd of wild mustangs from capture by ranchers. Includes facts about the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and endangerment of the mustang.
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DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Join Sprit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
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Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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After returning the body of Gus McCrae to Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call takes on the challenge of driving a herd of wild mustangs 2500 miles north of the Hat Creek Ranch in Montana. But tragedy, despair and deceit will greet him before he ever gets there.
18) Mustangs
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c1996
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English
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Gives an overview of the history of the classic Ford sports car, the Mustang, describing some notable models.
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It was the "late days of the Depression," times were hard and money scarce, and Ben Green "had about used up all the hard ways to make a living a-horseback." So when he heard talk of wild mustangs free for the taking in the Big Bend country of West Texas, he saddled a road horse, put his camp on a pack horse, and headed west from Weatherford, Texas. Ben recounts his tale at an easy lope, through hot days and cold nights, with dashes of danger along...