Wild Horse Killers

Wild Horse Killers by Mel Ellis

This is a great book my Mom picked up for me somewhere (She always finds the horse books at flea markets! Thanks Mom!)

Synopsis:
A college age girl lives out on her family's ranch. Her Dad wants her to geld her favorite horse, Red. (I can remember the horse's name, but not the girls!) The horse escapes and joins a small band of feral horses living in the valley.

Nasty men from town have rented a small plane and a jeep and are trying to catch the horses to sell for slaughter. The girl's horse is out with the wild bunch. She is on summer break, and decides to move the band of horses through the desert and over a mountain range, to a conservation land that will protect the wild horses.

The story follows her summer of moving this herd of horses alone.

It is a great book! You really feel like you are on the trip with her.

Other Books by Mel Ellis:
Caribou Crossing 1971
The Land, Always the Land 1997
Notes from Little Lakes:The Story of a Family and Fifteen Acres 1996
The Wild Horse Killers 1976
No Man for Murder 1973
Peg Leg Pete 1973
Caribou Crossing 1971
Sidewalk Indian 1974
Sermons in Stone: Inspirational Fables for Today 1975
Wild Goose, Brother Goose 1969
An Eagle to the Wind 1978