KING AND THE COWBOY

ISBN: 9780978776688 Géneros: WNGH:ANH Sinópsis: Before horsewhispering was popular an ole’ time cowboy William A Cummins was changing lives with secrets he learned by talkin’ to horses Over 100 photos mirror the sensibility of this softspoken feedbucket philosopher and author of KING and the COWBOY The book is deeply moving yet never selfpitying in telling Bill’s hardknocksbutdreaminspired story It would have been tempting given the broad strokes of Bill39s life A childhood marked by early stardom he became a teenage singing cowboy on radio he taught a golden palomino stallion to talk and pray on stage and learned trickroping they headlined as Smilin’ Bill and his Wonder Horse King the partial loss of his right hand at age nine the early death of his mother when he was 15 the heart warming solace he found in horses and a highly successful engineering career Instead the book allows the facts simply told to carry the weight The idea for the book came when Bill was again encouraged to perform rope tricks during retirement With wisdom coming straight from the horse’s mouth he now spins cowboy yarns and hitech stories to the young at heart