The Riding Man
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ISBN:
0-7414-5479-3
©2009
Price:
$10.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 98 pages
Category/Subject:
FICTION / Westerns
Men who know horses as something more than hide and bones, men who know horses as being courageous and strong, as spirit and as prophet and Shaman, having a heart real and true and a history that speaks of loss and hope regained.
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Abstract:
I could not yet hear this silent speak of horses and of the very few who still could, the remnants of a time when a horse was life amidst these short grass prairies and only those who could truly know a horse could survive here… I ride and I wait and I listen because I must…to learn the meaning…to lost loves, broken dreams and fickle chance…that for the seers, the Shamans and the real cowboys…that life is the thing they listen to.
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Customer Reviews
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08/31/2009
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Reviewer:
Bill Neal
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Earl Griffin has written himself a piece which he calls a "novella." He may call it a "novella" but truth be told, there is a lot more fact than fiction in it: autobiographical memories and musings comes nearer to hitting that nail on the head. Although Earl is a lawyer by trade (and a good one too), the law is not his first love: it is the land that Earl loves best. The tales the author spins of desperately searching for an injuried horse during a blizzard, prowling through sagebrush and salt cedars in the Red River sand dunes to roundup lost cattle as well as recounting episodes of the life and death of favorite horses, all have the earthy feel of old saddle leather. No phony, contrived Hollywood soap opera dramas here, pardner! So there you have it: Earl Griffin, the country lawyer, the horse-listener, the ranch-bred lover of all things having to do with the land and all its critters, the riveting storyspinner, the poet, the mystic, the incurable romantic. And he rolls all that into a "novella." What a guy!
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