The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos - Softcover

Green, Ben K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803270909 ISBN 13: 9780803270909

Publisher: Bison Books, 2000

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: Bison Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0803270909
• ISBN 13: 9780803270909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 307