Saving an American Icon - Preserving America's Wild Horses.

Hello,

I started this book and spent every dime I had into getting it published. A year after it was published I scraped another $2,000 together to give everyone that contributed to this book their own signed copy. I have always love horses and wild horses up until a few years ago had only been a childhood dream. God entered into my life and lead me to write this book and I place it in his hands and your hands to help me finance enough money to afford purchasing enough copies to offer them at a lower price. I love photo's and this book is full of wonderful people that have adopted a wild horse and their accomplishments. My goal I need to raise is $16,500, I set the amount at $8560. Please help me exceed $8500 and reach my goal of $16,500.

With your help I can purchase 3500 copies of this book and sell them for under half the price they are currently selling for and be able to raise money that will help keep our Living Historic Symbols of The West Alive and Well in their natural habitat. 50% of the proceeds from this book is reinvested into the Wild Horse, The American Mustang.

What people are saying about this book. Reading this book has brought tears of joy to my eyes - for to know a mustang, is to love a mustang and it is a love like no other. What a magnificent and forgiving animal we have been given as a gift. We worry about the fate of our wild friends in the future and in the present of this ever changing world we live in. To not have wild horses running free in the west is unthinkable! Thank you for writing this book and we are most certain that America's wild horses and burros thank you too.

Divine intervention is what has allowed this book to be compiled. As it was God that has directed me in every step of this books production. There are many books available about the wild horse that range from where to find them to books that are filled with lots of photos of these beautiful animals on the range. I wanted to create and bring to our readers a book that shares this magnificent animal and their amazing adopters. Currently as of press time there have been approximately 207,000 wild horses and burros adopted since this program began. Within the pages of this book you will find only a handful of those adopters that are going to open their hearts and share with you their stories and photos of their adopted horses.

I wanted to also share with readers that the wild horse is not just a horse that you adopt and keep as a lawn ornament but it is a wild horse that you adopt and can have many years of a close nit friendship and bonding experience which is a unique characteristic trait of a feral horse.

One of the reasons that I believe that these horse’s make such great trained animals is due to the fact that they have a herd bonding instinct which develops from their birth and interaction with the band. This is not something that is "learned" by simply taking domestic horses and turning them loose on HMAs. It takes many generations to develop this instinct.

With the proper training and care your wild horse will become the most trustworthy equine companion that you will ever have the opportunity to own. They can compete in many events and are just as successful as the domestic horse in competitions like, endurance trail, dressage, driving, western pleasure, english pleasure, cutting, team penning, reining, roping, barrels, poles and many other equine events.

You will find these horses listed by state and then alphabetized within this book. You will also find a reference section that lists the offices throughout the United States that will help you decide who to contact for more information about adopting your very own wild horse. There is also an adoption application that you can fill out and send in. Also in this reference section you will find a map that will allow you to look up the different ranges that these horses have been captured from.

As Congress has stated, the wild horse has been declared to be "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West." The wild horse will enrich you life and your soul and offer you a life time of friendship. By purchasing this book you will be helping to preserve the wild horse in their natural environment.

Please help me reach my goal and in return you will be helping save an Living Symbol of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West, The Mustang.

A Special Thank You To Everyone For You Time and Consideration and Helping me make Dreams come true. I would like to get the price of this book down and be able to offer it to New Adopters when they adopt a wild horse at either a discount or free.

God Bless.
Michelle Browning Shipman