The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos - Hardcover

Green, Ben K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078582099X ISBN 13: 9780785820994

Publisher: Castle Books, 2005

Synopsis

Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a perfect corral-side manner and plenty of natural wit, Green became the first to hang up a shingle in the trans-Pecos territory. Hear him tell the tales of his struggles with mean stockmen, yellowweed fever, banditos, poison hay, and drouth. His canny mix of science and horse sense when treating animals that ain t house pets is 100-proof old time pleasure.

About this title

About the Author:

A veterinarian in the far Southwest for much of his life, Ben K. Green retired to ranch in Texas until his death in 1974.

Review:

“Ben Green has won the approval of the sternest literary critics I know—ranch cowboys. In old Doc’s books, they recognize a man who knew horses and cattle to the bone and could tell about them with honest prose and a sly cowboy sense of humor. I’ve read them all, as have most of the cowboys I know.”—John R. Erickson, rancher and author of the Hank the Cowdog series (John R. Erickson)

About this edition

• Publisher: Castle Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 078582099X
• ISBN 13: 9780785820994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 306