Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos

✍ Scribed by Green, Ben K

• Book ID: 109021528
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307831897

✦ Synopsis

In the inimitable yarn-spinning fashion of Horse Tradin' and Wild Cow Tales , Ben K. (Doc) Green now takes us back with him to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as practicing horse doctor--working out of Fort Stockton, Texas--along the Pecos and the Rio Grande, in one of the last big "horse countries" of North America.

With precious little formal schooling, but with a perfect (if sometimes profane) corralside manner and plenty of natural wit, Doc became the first to hang up a shingle out there in the trans-Pecos country. And he didn't start small! The territory he had for his practice was 420 miles north and south by 360 miles east and west. And he covered that territory by all means known to man--shank's mare, horseback, buckboard, and (his standby for long hauls) a beat-up old coupe on whose body panels he kept his books in chalk.

To go with Doc on his rounds, visiting his "patients," is a nostalgic and hilarious...