Horse Tradin' Author:Ben K. Green Each of these twenty authentic tales, hiliariously funny and prickly as chaparral brush, is a atrue account of the author's experiences around corrals, livery stables, and wagonyards of the cattlemen's West. They are dusty as a cow path, and they are filled with the drawls and humor of the old horse traders themselves.
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Ben Green was a semi-retired vet who lived his youth and many years of his early manhood in the saddle. As a breeder and trader in horseflesh, he brought to his tales the pure flavor of a cowboy David Harum who has, as he says, "with these blood-shot eyes and gnarled hands measured in my time more than 70,000 horses." The yarns range all the way frm tales about arsenic-fed horses (an old trick used on aged horses to make them feed, fill out, and lookbetter than they are) to accounts of how old-timers made a dapple-gray mule with a bucket of paint and a hen's egg. Indeed, few readers, whether tinctured with a touch of larceny in their veins or not, will be able to resist the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure unadulterated "con" of Green's true tales of trading horses. « less