Brand Name – Wild Horse Tails

With 50,000 wild horses incarcerated in BLM pens, the adoption of 19 was only a drop in the bucket. But to those 19, it made the difference between a life of captivity and a return to freedom along the Santa Fe Trail on the New Mexico range. "Brand Name" is the third in the trilogy of true-life horse tales by Anne J. Thomas. Unlike her two previous books, "Sky-Dog!" and "Cimarron!" Brand Name focusses entirely on her experiences with the BLM, recounting the unique stories of each of her adoptions, painting a full and encompassing picture of what is happening to the last of America's wild horses on public lands. Anne gives a heartfelt narrative of the highs and lows of running a wild horse sanctuary in northeast New Mexico, which is now home to 35 horses. With the realities of drought and financial concerns, off-set by adventure and the fruition of dreams - using historical quotes that hark back to a time when millions of wild horses roamed the West - this book is an entertaining, informative and poignant homage to mustangs and what was once wild in America.