2~ Ben K. Green HC W/DJ Books: “Horse Tradin” & “The Village hotsell Horse Doctor”

2~ Ben K. Green Hardcover With Dust Jacket Books. The publisher is Alfred A. Knopf. The books is a RARE find for hardcover with dust jacket!!

Ben Greene was a veterinarian in the far Southwest for much of his life. Ben K. Green retired to ranch in West Texas until his death in 1974. These books are wrote by the Ben K. Green, which he tells the stories of his hilarious life!!

Ben Green was a awesome horseman, cowboy & horse Doctor. He is a great storyteller. His stories are charming, delightful. & funny. These are one of the favorite & BEST books I've ever read. It didn't take long to read & find it funny and interesting!! I would recommend these book to all ages. Ben Greene has some amazing life stories to share revolving around his life with horses and cattle's during the 1930's. These books are a collection of stories about being a young, independent cowboy in rural Texas in the 20s and 30s. Ben Greene tells stories of life in the South West US during and after WW2. Veterinary work at that time was primitive and pretty much a learn as you go for the Ben as he worked hard to care for the animals he was called to help.

1.) “Horse Tradin”~ 1973 (12th Printing). This book is illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. This book does NOT have any writings, stains, or markings on any of the pages. The dust jacket is in good shape, but has a small tear on top binder part. The bind is strong & holds all the pages good together. Reading this book will brings to life what it was like to live life independently off the land.

Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both.

These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green's experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went into horse trading, in what he imagined would be retirement. Greene is no stranger to the saddle, Green claims to have “with these bloodshot eyes and gnarled hands measured over seventy thousand horses.” His tales range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule from a bucket of paint and a chicken's egg. So you want to go into the horse business? You can learn the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure con man hokum of horse trading here, in a book every westerner or horse fancier should have on hand.

2.) “The Village Horse Doctor~ West of The Pecos”~ 1983 (14th Printing). The book was illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund. This book is in hotsell MNT condition. It does NOT have any tears, stains, or markings on pages throughout book, expect for a person name on first page (please look at my pictures). The dust jacket is in very good shape with NO tears or stains.

In thin book Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a perfect corral-side manner and plenty of natural wit, Green became the first to hang up a shingle in the trans-Pecos territory. Hear him tell the tales of his struggles with mean stockmen, yellowweed fever, banditos, poison hay, and “drouth.” His canny mix of science and horse sense when treating animals “that ain't house pets” is 100-proof old time pleasure.

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