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Dynamic New Novel Celebrates “The Day of the Horse” Western Fiction Promotes Conserving the Land and America’s Wild Horse Herds

NORRIS, MT - 28 Nov 2005 / Raven Publishing, Inc., introduces ABSAROKA, off the press, in time to celebrate Horse Month, which includes the Day of the Horse, December 10. Recent efforts to destroy this country’s wild horses have been met with outrage by horse-lovers across the country. Author Joan Bochmann emphasizes the tenacity and triumphs of the human spirit in her debut novel, ABSAROKA (Raven Publishing Inc., $12.00, 196 pgs. ISBN: 0-9714161-8-4). ABSAROKA comes from the Crow language where it means crow, referring not only to the bird, but also to the Crow nation and its land.

Readers will share the emotions of a variety of characters, as a homesick soldier returns to the Rocking R Ranch in northern Wyoming, the home he has longed for while on the battlefields, to find it changed. His mother died of cancer while he was half a world away, so he was prepared for that grief—but not for the further losses that awaited him, the loss of his father, and it looks like the ranch as well. A wild horse herd plays a large part in Joan Bochmann’s true-to-life novel. When the government publishes a plan to eradicate the area’s wild horses, Matt Reed puts his concerns for saving the ranch from the ravages of strip mining on hold as he joins the Crow nation in an attempt to save the wild herd. You will be spellbound to the surprising, but satisfying conclusion of this book that addresses many contemporary issues including war, loss, conservation, and battling natural elements in the world of western ranching. ABSAROKA offers the gift of a feel-good story in the author’s spare and sensitive prose, recommended for readers ages 16 and up.

Editors Note: Interviews and Media copies available upon request. 

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