Books I love and Recommend:

Horsemanship books
True Unity by Tom Dorrance
Horsemanship through Feel by Bill Dorrance
Gaited Horses by Lee Ziegler
The Complete Trail Horse by Dan Aadland
B.L.E.S.S. your horse, by Bucky and Nancy Sparks

Conformation and the History of Horses
Conformation series by Dr. Deb Bennett
The Conquerors by Dr. Deb Bennett

On Different Breeds
Rocky Mountain Horses by Bonnie Hodge
The Complete Morgan Horse by Jeanne Mellin
The Echo of Hoofbeats: The History of the Tennessee Walking Horse by Doug Womack
Wild Horses of the Great Basin by Joel Berger (FANTASTIC study of behavior of horses)

Working horses/ Draft Horses
The Draft Horse Primer by Maurice Telleen
The Work Horse Handbook by Lynn Miller
The New Horse Powered Farm by Stephen Leslie

GREAT Reads about life with horses and on the farm
Horse Wrangler: Sixty Years in the Saddle in Wyoming and Montana by Floyd Bard
Sketches from the Ranch: a Montana Memoir by Dan Aadland
Search for a Shadow of the Past: 2500 Miles, Mexico to Canada, April 1969- October 1970 by Barry Murray (online- search the title)
Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass by Gary Paulsen

Great General Reads:
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
The Long Legged House by Wendell Berry
Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen
The Contrary Farmer by Gene Lodgson
Bad Land: An American Romance by Johnathan Raban

Links:
Elizabeth Graves – Gaited Horse Clinician, Thinker and Student of the Horse.
Rocky Mountain Horse Association
Custom Saddles by David Genedek at About the Horse– I cannot recommend Dave and his work highly enough

Do you have books that you couldn’t live without?? Give me a hollar- I’m always looking for the next great read!!!