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Great Book & Gift for the Horse Lover — WIND, The Story of a Wild Horse Rescue

• Horses are no longer a necessity for work or transportation as they were in the days of the Wild West. Unwanted horses are often abused, abandoned, or worse.

• A new book by illustrator Denise Brown takes on these controversial practices. Wind, Wild Horse Rescue is an adventure about the plight of America's wild mustangs and the fight to prevent them from being eliminated on public lands.

• The book takes on the inhumanity of the slaughterhouse and the debate over what to do with wild horses.

• The book reveals many of the challenges faced by wild horses through the eyes, ears, and senses of a young colt named "Wind". Wind is chased by a helicopter and captured during a round-up. The names here are fictitious, but the events are real.

• The author hopes the world will realize wild mustangs should be treated humanely and should be allowed to live on the public lands that have been set aside for them. Americans can ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy these beautiful creatures -- and not just in the movies.

• Denise F. Brown's love for horses and animals, and her talent as an equine artist, motivated her to write and illustrate this book. Wind has over 100 beautiful equine sketches and paintings.

• Hundreds of thousands of wild mustangs and burros are being legally harvested, chased, or harassed each year. Mustangers and helicopter pilots, hot shot, brand, and place wild horses in holding pens with no shelter, often for years. Only a few are given the opportunity to be adopted. If not adopted, they are sold and transported in crammed trailers to slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico. There they are killed and processed into horse meat that is sold for human consumption in Europe and Japan.

• Rescue shelters and organizations across the country have joined the fight to help save them.

• You can help too. Share the story of Wind with your friends and family.

• Write a letter asking your Congress-person to vote to protect these horses from a slaughterhouse. Volunteer at or donate to an animal rescue center, or adopt a wild horse or burro if you have a farm or ranch.

• Together, we must ensure that future generations of American people will be able to enjoy and love wild mustangs as living treasures.