Name: The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos
Price: 8.99 USD
Availability: click-8910566-13423012?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.BetterWorldBooks.com%2Fproduct%2Fdetail%2FThe-Village-Horse-Doctor-9780803270909%3Fshipto%3DUS%26curcode%3DUSD%26utm_source%3DCJ_feed
Author: Ben K. Green
ISBN: 9780803270909

All-purpose | Everything Else

The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos

by Ben K. Green 2021-01-03 06:05:12

The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos

by Ben K. Green 2021-01-03 06:05:12

COMPARE PRICE

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 corralside manner and plenty of natural w... Read more

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 corralside 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.

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