More Houlihans and Horse Sense
Author | : Vernon Schmid |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780595469093 |
ISBN-13 | : 0595469094 |
Rating | : 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In this gathering of columns and articles, Vernon Schmid touches, provokes, gouges, tickles, and challenges his readers. A United Methodist pastor, and author of Watie's Wolves (iUniverse, 2007), he has been a horse trainer, ranch hand, wrangler, Rocky Mountain trail guide, radio announcer, country, rock-a-billy, folksinger and educator. His first novel, Seven Days of the Dog, was a Heekin Group Fiction Finalist and his collection of poetry, Hog Killers and Other Poems was a Northwoods Poetry Prize winner. A member of the Western Writers of America, his popular magazine column "Horse Sense" appears monthly in the National Foundation Quarter Horse Journal with readers in the all 50 states and 24 foreign countries.