"A bit of everything: adventure, melancholy, joy...common sense and pathos.... Simple language and homespun charm." - Barbara Mojica, writer.

Ransom "Doc" Wilcox's adventures began in Taber, Alberta, Canada in 1907, but he was soon whisked to the back country of Northern California where his family farmed, tended livestock, and sometimes got by via hunting and fishing-always with horses and dogs. Once, when the hunter became the prey-of a charging wild boar-Wilcox stuck a pole he was carrying into the ground and climbed up! Another time his Australian Shepherd saved him from a mad boar. Wilcox's love of animals, music, and the great outdoors flows in his nature-themed tales (for ages 9 and up, fourth grade - twelfth grade). They convey courage, devotion, and perseverance with warmth and sincerity. See/listen to Wilcox's International Book Award winning western: To Swallow the Earth.

Get this 42-page, YA/tween/middle grade fiction/nonfiction book about horses and pups (5.25" x 8" soft cover story book and ebook). Diverse characters, some images, approx. 8,000 words edited by best-selling author and college media instructor Karl Beckstrand (Samuel Sailing-read all of Beckstrand's 60+ multicultural books), available via Premio Publishing & Gozo Books (worldwide rights Sept. 2013) PremioBooks, libraries, and all major distributors. JNF002000, NAT001000, NAT016000, BIO023000, PET004000, library of Congress catalog number: 2013913405, ISBN: 978-0615856162, e-book ISBN: 978-1301904747