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Carregando... Horse Tradin' (1967)de Ben K. Green
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Horse Tradin' was my introduction to the fascinating, amazing, and more often than not, hilarious world of Ben K. Green. His stories, which may nor may not be true (but probably are) are gems of Americana. Even if you don't love horses, or Texas, or cowboys, or veterinarians? Well, if you have any interest in Americana, this book is a must have for your library. Ben Green's tales of his experiences horse and mule trading span the southwest and many years. From his early days still wet behind the ears to his later days, Green isn't afraid to relate a tale in which he's the butt of the joke. From the crippled boy who needed a pony so he could get to school on time, to the southern lady's spoiled Easter Lily, the Colonel's Rebel Commander to the painted mule, the tricks of the trade from days gone by demonstrate that looking a gift horse in the mouth is never a bad idea!
Ben Green has written an often hilarious account of his youthful days as a horse and mule dealer and sprinkled most every true story with memorabilia Americana that is a delight to remember. Young Ben considers himself a razor edged hoss trader, but often as not he's the one who gets skinned. Most of the stories take place in West Texas and around Fort Worth during the thirties and forties. (Green himself today is a world-traveled graduate of the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine in London, which is perhaps where he learned to retain the pure Texan swagger of his writing: swagger goeth before a fall.) In one of the funniest stories he is drawn deeper and deeper into a Southern family which eventually sells him a beautiful black racing thoroughbred--the horse is blind. In another he buys some wild Indian ponies which, unbeknownst to him, have been drugged with sleepy grass....All of these true-swap stories are mighty agreeable, and you can reckon you'll buy 'em.
Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green's experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went into horse trading, in what he imagined would be retirement. No stranger to the saddle, Green claims to have "with these bloodshot eyes and gnarled hands measured over seventy thousand horses." His tales range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule from a bucket of paint and a chicken's egg. So you want to go into the horse business? You can learn the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure con man hokum of horse trading here, in a book every westerner or horse fancier should have on hand. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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