Why We Ride
Verna Dreisbach (Editor),Jane Smiley (Foreword)
May 2010
Seal Press
ISBN: 978-1580052665
Women and their horses — a symbiotic relationship based on trust, camaraderie, friendship, and love. In Why We Ride, Verna Dreisbach collects the stories of women who ride, sharing their personal emotions and accounts of the most important animals in their lives — horses. This collection of 27 stories includes the heartfelt thoughts of a range of women — those who rode as children, those who spent their girlhood years dreaming of owning a pony, and those who have made a lifelong hobby or career out of riding. Each story reveals how horses have made a difference — and an impact — in the lives of these women. The bonds formed, the paths ridden, and the hills climbed all combine in this provocative, compelling anthology. With a foreword by best-selling novelist Jane Smiley, Why We Ride offers a reflective view on the relationships between women and horses.
Contributors include Dee Ambose-Stahl, Jane Ayres, Linda Ballou, Chansonette Buck, Lynda Fenneman, Kara Gall, Kathryn Hohmann, Dobie Houson, Jacklyn Lee Lindstrom, Diane Mapes, Janice Newton, Penny Porter, Andrea Richards, Valerie Riggs, Lisa (Chipolone) Romeo, Sonia Saruba, Michele Scott, Beth Sears, Kate St. Vincent Vogl, Emily Alexander Strong, Samanga Ducloux Wax, Jill Widner, Jacqueline Winspear, Vanessa Wright, and Therese Zink.
