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Horse Book - GOLDEN
The novel Golden, is a 23 chapter, 75,000 word young adult novel about the life of a wild horse in western Wyoming.
The horse book begins with the birth of the horse on the Red Desert above Rock Springs, Wyoming, and continues through the first year of his life amongst the wild herd he is born into.
He survives the bite of a rattlesnake in that first year and experiences other hardships of the natural world before coming into contact with his first humans, an eight year old girl and her family who are down from Montana and camping on the Red Desert.
This initial brief contact is followed shortly afterwards by the appearance of three ill-intentioned cowboys who manage to capture Golden and trailer him back to their ranch where he is mistreated for most of the following year, until he is able to make a dramatic escape.
After escaping, Golden makes his way northward through the vast wilderness of NW Wyoming which takes him through Yellowstone Park. Within the park he has encounters with wolves and grizzlies and a herd of stampeding bison.
There are various adventures described in this excellent horse book, that culminate in a chase by park rangers and a biologist who eventually capture the stallion in a narrow canyon and fly Golden by helicopter and sling to a corral holding area in the middle of the park.
Golden is then adopted by the family of the young girl who had encountered him on the Red Desert a few years earlier.
They haul Golden back to their homestead in Paradise Valley, Montana. But owning a stallion proves to be more than the family bargained for and HeatherHudson, the young girl, would rather see the stallion released back into the wild than have him subjected to getting gelded. She convinces her veterinarian father and riding instructor mother to make another trip south, back to the Red Desert, in order to set Golden free.
Once this is accomplished, the story follows Golden as he forms his own herd and sires his own foal.
A few years later Heather asks her father to take her back to the Red Desert to see if they can locate Golden simply to see how he is doing.
This father-daughter trip has many twists and turns as several natural disasters in the form first of a tornado and then of baseball size hail stones strike the pair.
Heather's father is seriously injured far out on the prairie, requiring Heather to summon all her strength and make a courageous ride for help. Keeping her wits about her she is able to re-establish contact with Golden and coax the stallion into once again letting her ride him in what becomes a galloping dash across miles of wide open country in an attempt to summon help for her father before it is too late.
(Note: All the locations, geography, biology, and natural history in this novel are accurate. Only the storyline is fictional).
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