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Synopsis
Meant to be read aloud around campfires, especially to people who think only rich people or rednecks ride horses, Prechtel credits both his own physical and spiritual survival in "modernity's mad rush to nowhere" with the sanity of riding and living with his Southwestern horses. These little horses took him flying over ravines into deep-mountain Holy places, backwards over streams, into churches--mounted--to win a bet by kissing antagonistic preachers on the pulpit, and in general keeping alive an older spirit in an age where horses have been sadly removed from our own everyday lives after three millennia as the closest companions of our ancestors' dreams and mythologies. If you want to have good memory, you have to do things that are worth remembering. Time to get busy