Playin' Cowboy

This book is a lifetime accumulation of stories, essays, verses, songs, and drawings by the author of Teaching Yourself to Train Your Horse. Included is a wide diversity of horse-human enterprises: reining, cattle cutting, racing, pleasure, and speedhorse, competitions; buying, selling, hauling, training, horsemanship, handling cattle, recreational riding, horse social behavior; and tales about horse farming in mid-western United states in the early twentieth century. There are serious and sad stories that may elicit a tear, light-hearted ones likely to make the reader chuckle, and accounts of famous horses and horse events, including a heralded eighteen fifty five race in Texas between a Quarter horse and a Thoroughbred, and a heroic seventeen eighty one ride in Virginia by an early American patriot.

The Cover Illustration was inspired by the nineteen ninety five winning run of Randy Paul of Cave Creek, Arizona, in the Freestyle Class of the National Reining Horse Association Futurity in Oklahoma City.