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  title info:
    title: Wild Horse Annie and the last of the mustangs
    sub title: the life of Velma Johnston
  name:
    name part: Cruise, David
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Griffiths, Alison
    name part: 1953-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "In 1950, Velma Johnston was a secretary at an insurance company in Reno, Nevada. Twenty years later, she had become a national hero, responsible for spurring Congress into passing legislation that protected wild horses, a feat that cemented her renown as "Wild Horse Annie." This stirring biography is the first to tell the story of Johnston's life and her extraordinary dedication to the mustangs that represent the spirit of the West. Veteran writers David Cruise and Alison Griffiths paint a vivid portrait of this intrepid woman, who survived a cruelly disfiguring bout with polio as a child and channeled her energy and intellect into her career and marriage -- until she encountered a truck of injured, half-dead horses on her way to work in 1950. Those horses, destined for a pet food rendering plant, launched Johnston into a decades-long campaign against ranchers and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to stop the roundup and slaughter of mustangs. At a time when animal rights was barely a cause and women were still expected to stay at home, Johnston embarked on dangerous vigilante missions to free captured horses and document roundups, and began a highly organized one-woman campaign to raise public awareness of their plight, all while continuing to work and maintain a household. Johnston's courage, determination, and innovative tactics -- she initiated a children's letter-writing campaign that flooded Congress with more mail than it had received on any issue except the Vietnam War -- pitted her against ranchers and powerful politicians, but eventually won her support and admiration around the world, including the friendship of celebrated children's author Marguerite Henry, who fictionalized her story in a children's novel. In this absorbing and carefully researched biography, Cruise and Griffiths depict the ups and downs of a remarkable woman's life and mission, reveal her lasting legacy, and capture the romance and magic of the wild horses that inspired her." -- from…
  table of contents: Velma -- Charlie -- The double lazy heart ranch -- The road to Reno -- A law of our own -- Moccasin walking -- Mrs. Johnston goes to Washington -- It's a hell of a good day -- The lady in the green coat -- Out of cold storage -- The Battle of the Pryor Mountains -- A perfect storm -- Trapped -- The children's crusade
  note: David Cruise & Alison Griffiths.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usp--
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Annie Bronn
  subject:
    topic: Horsemen and horsewomen
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Animal rights activists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Mustang
  subject:
    topic: Wild horses
    geographic: West (U.S.)
  subject:
    topic: Animal Rights
  subject:
    topic: Horses
  classification: SF284.52.J64 C78 2010
  classification: 333.95/96655092
  classification: SF 284.52.J64 C955w 2010
  identifier: 9781416553359
  identifier: 1416553355
  identifier: 2009052996
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100108
    record change date: 20191204153701.0
    record identifier: in00004512289