Out in Paperback / Honest Horses

Honest Horses -- Wild Horses in the Great Basin by Paula Morin, UNevada Press '06 paperback, 376 pages, ISBN #087417631X. List of contributors, bibliography, glossary, appendix.

Here's a perfect pick for the horse lovers on your gift list. Photographer/oral historian Paula Morin has interviewed 62 people who know horses from a variety of perspectives: "ranchers, horse breeders and trainers, Native Americans, veterinarians, wild horse advocates, mustangers, range scientists, cowboy poets, western historians, wildlife experts, animal behaviorists, and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) agents..."

From this database, Morin draws insights and opinion about "the nature of horses, ranching and the western environment." Some of this is positive, such as the majesty and beauty of horses. Other parts are sobering, such as interviews with those "who understand how precariously all life exists in the arid vastness of the Great Basin."