Wild Horses of Skydog

A searingly beautiful tribute to wild Mustang family groups that

have been reunited after suffering roundup and separation in the American West.



Skydog

Ranch and Sanctuary covers over 9,000 acres in Malibu,

California, and Bend, Oregon, where wild horse advocates are working

tirelessly to save captured Mustangs and return them to freedom. To date

Skydog has rescued over 300 wild horses and 50 donkeys and mules,

with a special focus on finding and reuniting bonded families who may have

once roamed the American West together but who were separated during

the roundup process.



In this striking book,

gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of dramatic photographs,

Skydog founder Clare Staples recounts heartbreaking tales of liberty

lost and the dramatic extents to which some Mustangs will go to flee

captivity or rejoin their family bands. She describes the mission that

drives her and the Skydog team to identify

and locate iconic wild

horses that have been removed from public lands, and then secure

them in order to assure them freedom at the Sanctuary for their

remaining years--whenever possible, in the company of their original wild

herdmates.



Readers meet

twenty-one horse families, including that of Blue Zeus, the stunning

Wyoming stallion who Staples admired in the wild for years before, in

the fall of 2020, his herd was slated for roundup and captured, in one day

losing both their freedom and each other. The story of the

urgent search for him and his mares and foals, and

their eventual reunion

in the hills of Oregon, encapsulates all that Skydog hopes to

accomplish for hundreds more horses in the years ahead.

Incredibly moving, inspiring, and offering the hope of wildness and

beauty preserved for future generations, this book is for every animal

lover and all those who honor the natural inhabitants of the

American West.





A percentage of all

sales goes toward supporting Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary.