Bøker av Patricia Probert Gott

"Cowgirl Country" is a contemporary novel based on a true story. A divorced, fortyish, business woman fulfills her lifelong dreams by working as a horse wrangler and trail guide at a duderanch in Wyoming. Her adventures take her from rodeos, endurance races, and pack trips over the Continental Divide into Yellowstone National Park to training wild mustangs in Montana and wrangling horse-pack trips into the Shoshone-Teton National Forests. This book is an enjoyable read for any horse lover or fan of the West.

This story, in LARGE PRINT, recounts the last 20 years of Sitting Bull's life-narrated by his favorite horse, Blackie. Based on true events, this historical novel covers the years from 1870 until he was killed in 1890.During these years as Chief and Holy Man of the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull fought for, advised, counseled and represented his people, trying to enable them to live free on the northern plains as they had always done, all while the U.S. government declared them "hostiles" and sent the Army to round them up and contain them to living on designated reservations. Sitting Bull and Blackie were involved in the Battle on the Rosebud, present during Custer's defeat, fled to Canada, surrendered to U.S. military, took part in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, and raised horses from his home on the Grand River in South Dakota until his untimely murder

This story recounts the last 20 years of Sitting Bull's life-narrated by his favorite horse, Blackie. Based on true events, this historical novel covers the years from 1870 until he was killed in 1890. During these years as Chief and Holy Man of the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull fought for, advised, counseled and represented his people, trying to enable them to live free on the northern plains as they had always done, all while the U.S. government declared them hostiles and sent the Army to round them up and contain them to living on designated reservations. Sitting Bull and Blackie were involved in the Battle on the Rosebud, present during Custer's defeat, fled to Canada, surrendered to U.S. military, took part in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows, and raised horses from his home on the Grand River in South Dakota until his untimely murder.

Rafiji, a young horse found running wild in South Africa near the Botswana border, is caught and trained to be a safari horse. She tells of her travels and adventures as she encounters wildebeests, zebras, kudus, monkeys, warthogs, rhinos, giraffes, leopards, hippos, red hartebeests, and black sable antelope. This story is based on a true adventure.The colorful cover illustration, plus interior pencil illustrations were professionally drawn by Jewel L. Clark to help children visualize the animals in the story.

The plight of too many wild horses in the US today is dismal, as exemplified in this story of Buck. He is a full-grown, young adult, buckskin-colored mustang who slipped through the cracks of the precarious BLM wild horse management system in Wyoming.Less than a week after capture, Buck endures participating in a frightening rodeo wild horse race, then was put up for adoption and mistreated when ignorant cowboys try abusive methods to "break" him instead of taking time to gentle and train him.A young lady wrangler tries her round-pen method of teaching him, but after all Buck's been through, will he ever be able to trust humans again? Or, what else lies in store for him if he can't be trained?

Witez II, one of the most outstandingly, magnificent Polish Arabian stallions- ever- tells the true story of how General George S. Patton and Colonel Charles H. Reed saved hundreds of noble horses from being slaughtered and eaten by the Russian Red Army near the end of the Second World War. Witez II actually lived the story-who better to tell it. Gen. Patton and Col. Reed, both avid lifelong horse lovers, combined talents to capture and rescue the best-of-the-best breeding stock the Third Reich had gathered at Hostau Stud Farm in Czechoslovakia 1936-45, including hundreds of Lipizzans and Arabians. For horse lovers, this story is epic and could have been devastating for both breeds had it played out differently.

Appaloosa Duke is a horse story about bullying. Duke tells of his own life having to deal with stress and sadness at being bullied and teased from the time he was a foal in Idaho to being trained as a trail horse at a dude ranch in Wapiti Valley, Wyoming. Other horses could never see beyond his unusual dotted/spotted coat pattern and treated him harshly. Duke befriends a gimpy, arthritic horse named Boots and helps save his life and that of another old horse by standing up to a bear in their defense. Will the other herd horses scoff at his actions and consider him foolhardy...

Shiloh is a small chestnut Arabian horse owned by the author, as is his pasture mate, Sani. Shiloh's specialty HAD been Endurance and Competitive Trail Riding. Here he enters five different classes in a horse show, then goes camping and exploring in the mountains on a three-day packtrip. Written from Shiloh's perspective, these stories are loosely based on the author's true-life experiences at horse shows, and her adventureswhile riding and camping during horseback packtrips.

Some have referred to her as the female version of Secretariat; some called her "super mare," queen of racing, the finest mare in the history of thoroughbred racing. Some simply called her "Queen Z." Her name is Zenyatta-who, from 2007 to 2011, turned the Sport of Kings into an equal Sport of Queens.Based on a true story, as told by Zenyatta herself.