Old Horses

It is very rare for a horse, either wild or domestic, to die of old age. This book addresses the why's, how's, and emotions of equine euthanasia, as there are many conditions in horses where this becomes the right decision. This book will help you answer questions about when that time is, and how to prepare for it.

Pepper Ryan found herself in a bad situation. She found herself far from home after receiving unwanted attention from the man who brought her up to Montana from Texas, where her ma still was. The worst of it was that she didn’t know what she was going to do from there. She started working for a nice family near the small town of Trinity, but soon, she was sure they would kick her out on the street. Amos Philips was known for being the jokester, the man who never took anything seriously. But when the woman working for his sister finds herself in a bind, will he be willing to marry her to ...

Julia grew up spoiled by her parents catering to her every whim. But when things didn’t go her way one day her pa had finally had enough. Julia was then shocked by what her parents had done, and at first, couldn’t believe it. But it turned out to be the best thing of her life. Nathan Parker was happy with the way his life was after getting saved, but God had more intended for him. He was being led to help someone he never thought he’d talk to again, and it was going to turn out to be the best thing in his life. And maybe he would one day reconcile with his own parents after the way he...

Ida Thompson wasn’t a young girl anymore. She had been married and raised four boys. But when her husband died suddenly one day, she became bitter at God. Not wanting anyone around, and left to run a business all on her own, she is about to lose it all when she has friends who come around her to help. But will that be enough for her to turn back to God, and to turn back to the happy woman she once had been? Obadiah Jacobs had traveled all over the west while he raised his three boys alone. After his wife died giving birth to his youngest he felt that God was telling him to help others in ...

Emma feels like she is being judged by others because of something her brother has done. And then when her ma leaves them she feels as if she must prove she is nothing like either of them. If that means she stays at the ranch for the rest of her life to help, then so be it. Even if it means never marrying the man she loves. Michael grew up wanting to be a lawman, but when that doesn’t happen right away he gets a job as a ranch hand. After working there for years, he is ready to try to go for his dreams again. But it wasn’t just being a lawman that he wanted anymore. Now he wants it all....

Willow wants a godly man like her sister and friend have, but she thinks she needs to act just like them in order to get one. She thinks she has to change who she is to get the man she thinks she could be falling for to notice her. Dakota is a man who wants to start a family, but he doesn’t want to have to deal with a woman who will talk his ear off. He wants her to just provide kids for him, and for her to be happy with that. He thinks if he can find a spinster. Someone who all the men looked over because she wasn’t beautiful, or was maybe just a little too shy, he would find the woman...

The riders of Old Quarry Lake Farms are enjoying their summer together. Newcomer Shelby Simone and her friends Katherine Wilson and Rose Jensen spend all of their free time hanging out at the barn and exploring the town. Shelby is taking part in her first horse camp at the farm. Between her lack of riding experience and having Katherine as a junior counselor, Shelby feels equal parts confident and awkward. Katherine and Rose have been riding horses for years, and they’re all the same age—Shelby will never be able to catch up with them!

The New Hired Hand Has a Plan to Get the Beautiful Widow Right Where He Wants Her... BUT the Widow Has Plan of her Own... Are They Thinking the SAME THING? A Match Made In the Old West: She Makes Him a Better Man… and He Brings Out Her Naughty Side! A man who makes you laugh can steal your heart with his good-natured humor, and Mister Appleton makes the Widow Carson laugh whenever she’s around him . . . EVEN IF HE DOESN’T INTEND TO! A story about the budding relationship between a window and her new handyman in the Old West. Humor, comedy and sparks between a lonely widow and a man ...

Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winning stories from the fifth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

She had it all--wealth beyond measure but she had no peace of mind. Why? Because of her daughter's love of the darn horses. Gina Franklin feared the beasts but hid her anxiety until the day she was told she had to learn how to ride one herself. All this to satisfy the making of a movie about her daughter's honeymoon trip called Riding for Gold. The trip promised to be the death of Gina if she couldn't figure a way out. The answer came in the form of one man--Dominique--her daughter's masterful horse trainer with the gentle hands that could calm any living thing. Gina and her PTSD. Would ...

Special pre-release pricing! Normally priced at $7.99. SIX-GUN MAN That’s what Dan Hanton was, among other things. A drifter and a loner who preferred wild lonesome country and remote, almost deserted town like Ramada where there weren’t too many innocent bystanders getting in the line of fire if old enemies from the past showed up looking for him. Old enemies like the Moody and Fink boys, outlaws who had nothing to fear from a crooked sheriff who never came to Ramada. They had nothing to fear from anyone except each other – and Dan Hanton. Nora banged on Lafe Moody’s door and then ...

Enjoy this sweet cowboy novel by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… The love he needs might be the last thing he expects… Adam Whitaker has loved and lost more times than he can count. But as the town’s vet and the director of an equine therapy camp, life is finally going great – if somewhat lonesome. And then, in strolls Kylie VanLueven, his new receptionist. The last time he saw Kylie, she was just a kid. Now, she’s beautiful and all grown up, but he knows keeping things professional is the right thing to do – no matter what his heart is telling him. Especially because ...

When Derek and his partner Maggie decide to escape to the country, they don’t opt for the simple life. Instead they set about converting an old Cotswold stables in Stow-on-the-Wold into their dream home. Over the next two years, they wage guerrilla war on the Planning Office, are cursed by everything from collapsing walls to poison gas, run out of money, and meet some very strange characters - till in its final stages of construction, the place unaccountably floods.

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! This baker's dozen of short stories with a Western flavor is the anthology of the third year's Readers Favorites from Frontier Tales, the online magazine of frontier and Western yarns. Join with others who've said these are some of the best short stories about the West that they've seen.

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! In tales from heart-warming to bone-chilling, authors from across the country take us back to the lives and times of the western frontier, where the new culture met the old and battles were fought, love born, and dreams achieved—or lost. This collection of the Tales voted Best by readers each month at www.FrontierTales.com, plus an Editor's Choice, make 13 wonderful stories of the Old West. Meet civil war soldiers, sheriffs, grifters and gunslingers, natives and ne'er-do-wells, and the women and men who pioneered this vast new land. ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! From a post-Civil War soldier who's sick from the dreadfulness and injustice of battle and longs for a life where he can regain his self-respect to a slip of a woman with flashing blue eyes and an Irish brogue who's on the track of the men who took her family, this collection of monthly winners from the eZine Frontier Tales whisks you back in time to when life and death were close neighbors and a person's word was a bond. These Tales honor the Old West and the men and women whose strength and spirit made the United States the unique ...

From the author of Soul Deep in Horses: Memoir of an Equestrian Vagabond and the award-winning Tevis Cup Magic: Taking on the World’s Toughest 100 Mile Endurance Ride comes a collection of essays that take place in the present-day Wild West: southwest Idaho. In these keenly perceptive, and often humorous lyrical word portraits of nature, animals, local history, and horse rides and hiking adventures in the Owyhee country, Merri Melde gives readers a look at four seasons of a unique outdoor life. From experiencing wild thunderstorms, flash flood and wildfire, to horseback riding on cattle ...

Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world! Frontier Tales is an online ezine dedicated to bringing new Western short stories into view. Each month, readers vote on their favorite Tale for that month. At the end of the year, there are 12 stories they have selected as the best. The editor then picks one more to make a total of thirteen, a baker's dozen. These are the winners from the fourth year of the ezine's production. Enjoy!

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By the autumn of 1883, the wild country west of Holt County was getting organized. Brown County was carved out of Holt and Long Pine precinct early in the year, and the railroad reached Stuart and Bassett and rolled on to Valentine. Telegraph lines ran between the cities, and newspapers--Lord, the newspapers!--were everywhere with their blaring headlines. Progress, every place you looked. But when Augustus "Gus" John is caught between the vigilantes of the new Niobrara Protection Association led by Cap Burnham and old loyalties to his friend, Albert Wade, newly released from jail and ...