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June 2012

Horses First Domesticated in Western Steppes

By | Horses

by Christa Lesté-Lasserre From TheHorse.com Using paleontology, archeology, and genomics, a group of European researchers has tackled the long-debated issue of early horse domestication. According to this research team, the horse-human domestic relationship began in the grasslands of modern-day Eastern Europe, around Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and domestic herds often benefited…

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Horse You See film

By | Horses, Media

Meet Ross, a horse from the Navajo reservation. Hear his story and share his thoughts as he explains the very essence of being a horse. Spoken in Navajo with English subtitles. Melissa Henry, national winner of the 2012 PBS Online Film Festival with this film, produced a 7-minute short film,…

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Michael McGarrity’s new book – Hard Country

By | Books

I just finished Michael McGarrity’s new book Hard Country and highly recommend it. The publisher describes it: “A richly authentic epic adventure of rough-hewn men and courageous women, set in the hard country of the American Southwest frontier. “Hard Country is a rare and extraordinary story of one family’s struggle…

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