Books like They Sang for Horses by LaVerne Harrell Clark

Cormac McCarthy’s 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses follows a young cowboy’s journey across the Mexican–American border, blending romance, adventure, and a poignant elegy for the fading American frontier.

A horse on the front lines of World War I bears witness to the brutal reality of trench warfare from both sides, revealing the stark human-animal bond in conflict.

A young woman defends her faith and freedom in a polygamous Mormon community while hunting her captors in the rugged American West.

After a truck crash leaves her daughter and a horse in pain, a mother journeys to Montana to seek the legendary horse Whisperer, hoping to heal both the animal and herself.

Monty Roberts is a real life horse whisperer- an American original whose gentle training methods reveal the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled and persuade that horse to accept a bridle, saddle, and rider in thirty minutes. HIs powers may seem like magic, but his amazing "horse sense" is based on a lifetime of experience. Roberts started riding at the age of two, and at the age of thirteen he went alone into the high deserts of Nevada to study mustangs in the wild. What he learned there changed his life forever. Monty Roberts has spent his whole life working with horses- schooling them, listening to them, and learning their ancient equine language. In The Man Who Listens to Horses, he tells about his early days as a rodeo rider in California, his problems with his violent horse trainer father, who was unwilling to accept Monty's unconventional training methods, his friendship with James Dean, his struggle to be accepted in the professional horse-training community, and the invitation that changed his life- to demonstrate his method of "join-up" to the Queen of England. From his groundbreaking work with horses, Roberts has acquired an unprecedented understanding of nonverbal communication, an understanding that applies to human relationships as well. He has shown that between parent and child, employee and employer (he's worked with over 250 corporations, including General Motors, IBM, Disney, and Merrill Lynch) and abuser and abused, there are forms of communication far stronger than the spoken word and that they are accessible to all who will learn to listen. This inspirational and gentle man, first introduced to the American public on Dateline NBC, is part James Herrior, part Bill Gates, and part John Wayne. And his story is one you will never forget.

American Indian cultures, especially those of the Great Plains, have a rich relationship with their horses. Far more than a beast of burden, the horse is for Native people a friend and a spiritual companion. Nowhere is this bond more spectacularly illustrated than in the beautiful equipment Native horses wear and the tribal clothing, tools, and other objects that incorporate horse motifs. Filled with photographs of objects from the unparalleled collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as historical photographs of North American Indians and their horses, this book documents the central role horses play in Native cultures. 95 color and black-and-white photographs.

A collection of Native American goddess stories drawn from oral tradition, celebrating personal freedom, communal harmony, and the balanced dialogue between people, animals, and spirits through magic and sacred practice.

Spirits of the Earth gathers Native American legends, rituals, and practical exercises that reveal how animals, birds, and insects serve as signs and spiritual guides, teaching readers how to use these symbols for healing, intuition, and personal growth.

Discover the life of North American Great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, whose courage at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and complex relationship with U.S. politics shaped the western frontier of the 19th century.