LEADER 03659nam 2200577 450 001 9910787458803321 005 20230807212444.0 010 $a1-62349-287-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000335410 035 $a(EBL)1920618 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1920618 035 $a(OCoLC)900277105 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42536 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1920618 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11006989 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL694286 035 $a(OCoLC)900346830 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000335410 100 $a20150129h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aUnbranded $efour men and sixteen mustangs : three thousand miles across the American West /$fBen Masters ; photographs by Phillip Baribeau, Korey Kaczmarek 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCollege Station, Texas :$cTexas A&M University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (190 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-63004-6 311 $a1-62349-281-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreparation -- Inspiration -- Why mustangs? -- The kickstarter campaign -- Choosing a route -- Production team, Cindy Meehl -- The horses -- Picking out the mustangs -- Training the horses: month one, Ben Masters and Lanny Leach -- Training the horses, Jonny Fitzsimons -- Val's lessons -- Shoeing the horses and resurrection, Thomas Glover -- The crew -- Ben Thamer and his horses -- Jonny Fitzsimons and his horses -- Thomas Glover and his horses -- Ben Masters and his horses -- Arizona -- Logistics -- Day 1 and day 2 -- Cameraman down! Phill Baribeau -- Violet's injury -- Val at the vineyard, Val Geissler -- The Cholla incident -- Dysentery, BenThamer -- The grand heatstroke -- Utah -- Logistics -- Round one: losing the horses -- The longest day or leave your guns at home, Jonny Jonny Fitzsimons -- Hell's hole -- Trail food, Ben Masters and Kory Kazmarek -- Impassable -- Round two: losing the horses, Thomas Glover -- Idaho and Wyoming -- Logistics -- Two-second rodeo career -- Horse care -- Donkey -- Trout fishing into a thunderstorm -- Losing our minds -- Montana -- Logistics -- Seeing the production -- Fly-fishing horseback -- Burned out of the Bob -- Glacier -- The last mile, Jonny Fitzsimons -- The finish line -- Reflections -- Auctioning Luke -- Mustang dilemma -- In it for the long ride. 330 $aOn an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada. For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the US Bureau of Land Management that were perfectly adapted to the rocky terrain and harsh conditions of desert and mountain travel. A meticulously planned but sometimes unpredictable route brought them face to face with snowpack, downpours, and wildfire; unrelenting heat, raging rivers, and sheer cliffs; jumping cactus 606 $aAdventure travel$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aWestern riding$zWest (U.S.) 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel 615 0$aAdventure travel 615 0$aWestern riding 676 $a917.804/34 700 $aMasters$b Ben$f1988-$01504850 702 $aBaribeau$b Phillip 702 $aKaczmarek$b Korey 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787458803321 996 $aUnbranded$93734093 997 $aUNINA