Mustangs: A Return to the Wild

by Hope Ryden

The author documents in text and photographs her studies of the mustangs in the American West as she followed them on foot and learned details of their social structure and behavior.

111 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 1978

About the author

Author-Naturalist Hope Ryden has spent years in the field, studying and photographing North American wildlife. Her behavioral findings have been published in National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Audubon magazine, and her books have been translated into German, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Russian. To date she has twenty-three books to her credit, all of which are illustrated with her own photography. Her most recent titles can be ordered through Barnes and Noble.com or Amazon.com. Some of her earlier books can be ordered directly from her or from iUniverse.com. Hope is available for school programs, and she also lectures for adult audiences. Her wildlife photographs are handled by the National Geographic's Image Collection or can be ordered directly from her.

Reviews

[Katie Winkler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brought back to my mind as I work on my memoir. I was 11 when the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 was passed and was inspired by this book published in 1972 to complete one of my first serious research projects about mustangs and how they suffered, the cruelty of how they were treated as they were being rounded up for slaughter and then the triumph of the passage of the protective act, partly due to a letter-writing campaign that included children like me. This book, however, tells more about the history of the mustang and then tells the story of one band of wild horses, complete with dozens of pictures. I couldn't believe I found the book again after all these years and the many moves I've made, but there it is--still on my bookcase.