One Hundred Horses: Drama as Novel, Memoir as Drama

Barbara Barney J Nelson

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Book cover for One Hundred Horses: Drama as Novel, Memoir as Drama

One Hundred Horses: Drama as Novel, Memoir as Drama

One Hundred Horses: Drama as Novel, Memoir as Drama

Barbara Barney J Nelson

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In One Hundred Horses this award-winning author has interwoven stage and screen plays to create a novel in dialog. A brief memoir and photograph album of inspiration introduce each of the six chapters. These family-friendly, realistic, dramatic cowboy romances include details about ranch, reservation, and border life; immigration, healthy food, horseshoeing, and a Shakespearean version of horse training. The author lived the life she writes about and provides authentic glimpses into traditional cowboy etiquette, universal rural values, and the rewards of hard work. Chapter tension tackles the pros and cons of patriarchy, feminism, pride, horse training, jealousy, trust, patience, respect, misrepresentation, reconnaissance, and injury. Characters include a chuckwagon cook, Mexican illegal, Hispanic school teacher, female horseshoer, casino boss, California farmer, Las Vegas rodeo stock contractor, Marine veterans, Native American ranchers, law officers, and cowgirls. Of course the cast also includes hundreds of horses who patiently and silently assist, challenge, and improve the humans in countless ways.

Critical Reviews

"How can something be both creative and real: A book that tells the stories behind the stories. The screenplays alone are pure gold but the narratives that set the scenes and let me know the connections to real life (and the photos!) make this work more rich and real than I find myself able to describe. Barney Nelson knows the characters she has created. In her lifetime as a cowboy journalist she experienced the world she captured with pen and camera as she reported the true stories of real people. In One Hundred Horses she introduces us to the ancestors of her characters and gives us context for their motivations and actions. The screenplays stand solidly on their own as beautifully crafted creative works; but the journey through their origin stories illuminates the connection between experience and creation in a way that satisfies a deeply human need of wanting to know where things come from."

-Emily Kitching, Editor/Publisher of Eclectic Horseman magazine

Publishing Information

Publisher: Barbara Barney Nelso
Pub date: 2024-07-05
Length: 326 pages

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