For the Love of a Horse
ISBN: 9780826342768
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of New Mexico Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Literature;

In his eighty-plus years, Max Evans has known, owned, ridden, and been thrown by quite a number of horses. In For the Love of a Horse, Evans shares his favorite horse stories for all to enjoy. As Max explains, "I wanted a wide range of adventures from another time, with different horses, of different breeds, and a sense of history of those special days."



Max begins with his first horse, Cricket, which he received when he was four years old. At the age of ten, he helped with a horse-drive from far southeast New Mexico, through west Texas, and on to the final destination in Guymon, Oklahoma. Later, PDQ was a horse that seemed very gentle and laid-back, until someone rode him. And then there was Molly, who liked to fly through and around obstacles on coyote hunts.



This book is for all those who enjoy reading horse stories as much as Max loves telling them. Saddle up!



"The recognition is long overdue. (Max Evans is) sui generis. He understands the present West better than anyone else, what it's like to be there now living in two worlds of the pickup truck and the bronco."--Charles Champlin, former Denver bureau chief of Time and retired arts editor of The Los Angeles Times, quoted in The New York Times

Max Evans was born on August 29, 1925 in Ropes, Texas. He was a writer and director. In addition to writing, his career included soldier in Europe in World War II, a cowboy, a miner, an artist, and a smuggler. His writing focused on "post-war transition of the American West." His best-known novel was The Rounders, published in 1960. In 1965 it was made into a movie. The Hi Lo Country was published in 1962 and was made into a movie in 1998. His other books included Ol' Max Evans--The First Thousand Years, written with Slim Randles (an autobiography); Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan (nonfiction); and Bluefeather Fellini, a collection of animal stories. His last novel was The King of Taos, published in June 2020. He published over 25 books and won multiple Spur, Wrangler, and Owen Wister awards. Max Evans died at the age of 95, on August 26, 2020.

(Bowker Author Biography)


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