Lariat

Nat Love: The Life and Legacy of the Former Slave Who Became the Wild West's Most Famous Black Cowboy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 103min

“Mounted on my horse my...lariat near my hand, and my trusty guns in my belt...I felt like I could defy the world.” (Nat Love)The American mountain man, with his myriad of practical skills, could endure isolation in a way most could not. He lived in constant peril from the extremes of nature and from the hostilities of cultures unlike his own. In an emergency, assistance was rarely available, and he rarely stayed in one place long enough to build even a simple shelter. Travel in the American West relied upon a specific calendar, and to ignore it could be fatal, as many discovered, to their misfortune. Winter in the mountainous regions of the Rocky Mountains and Cascades was lethally cold to explorer and settler alike, but desert areas and grass plains presented difficulties as well. The network of rivers flowing west of the Mississippi on both sides of the continental divide served as early highways to the Wyoming and Montana regions, the Oregon Territory, Utah and Colorado, and the California southwest. Some were placidly tranquil, while others raged through the extreme elevations, all but defying navigation. Explorers, soldiers, and settlers of African-American heritage comprise an unfamiliar story to most students of American history. However, in the push westward, they were present in sufficient enough numbers to exert great influence on the nation’s development. Among the earliest accounts is that of Isabel de Olvera, who settled in New Mexico around the year of 1600, and it is estimated that by 1750, 25 percent of Albuquerque’s population shared discernible African ancestry. York, the well-known servant of Lewis and Clark, accompanied the legendary expedition under the auspices of the Jefferson administration, and Edward Rose traveled up the Missouri River in the same era. Within just a few years, Pio Pico became the governor of California, and George Bush became one of the first black men to travel the Oregon Trail, opening that route ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Delaine Daniels. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/179184/bk_acx0_179184_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Healing Shine: A Spiritual Assignment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 581min

Michael Johnson thinks he knows a thing or two about horses. Despite the doctorate and a quarter-century in the corporate world, and a career that has taken him across America so many times he no longer needs a map - above all things - he is still a cowboy. At 45, the internal calling to return to the world of horses, rodeo, and roping will no longer be denied.A good horse will be required. A simple enough task for an “expert” like Michael. Even though it’s “been a while”, his skills with the lariat will return, and he knows how to train horses. In his youth he watched his dad and uncles develop countless roping horses for work on their own ranch, and for others throughout the country. In his teens and early 20s, he assimilated every tip, training device, and technique in their repertoire. They taught him not only the “best way” to deal with the horses, but the only way. Armed with the knowledge of certainty, Michael finds only success with his initial prospects. Then, Michael meets the gray called Shine.“Don’t buy him,” counsels Shine’s owner. “You won’t like him”. Undaunted, Michael purchases the horse expecting his training methods to produce solid results in thirty days - 60 at the most. Some two years and three months later, Shine is no different than he was on the first day.The crushing realization comes that the man who considered himself an expert is a fool. Gradually, he comes to a most difficult admission. Like so many who claim to know everything there is to know about horses - he knows nothing at all. Yet, he cannot abandon the gray. Something in his spirit tells Michael that in the heart of the disturbed horse resides the thing called greatness.The story of one horse and one man and their seven-year spiritual journey together. Along the way, a blue roan colt, an old warhorse, and true horsemen provide Michael with pieces to the puzzle of healing Shine - and at last, a path into the heart of the great gray. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/203677/bk_acx0_203677_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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