HORSE TRADIN'

by Ben K. Green ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 12, 1967

Ben Green has written an often hilarious account of his youthful days as a horse and mule dealer and sprinkled most every true story with memorabilia Americana that is a delight to remember. Young Ben considers himself a razor edged hoss trader, but often as not he's the one who gets skinned. Most of the stories take place in West Texas and around Fort Worth during the thirties and forties. (Green himself today is a world-traveled graduate of the Royal College of Veterinary Medicine in London, which is perhaps where he learned to retain the pure Texan swagger of his writing: swagger goeth before a fall.) In one of the funniest stories he is drawn deeper and deeper into a Southern family which eventually sells him a beautiful black racing thoroughbred--the horse is blind. In another he buys some wild Indian ponies which, unbeknownst to him, have been drugged with sleepy grass....All of these true-swap stories are mighty agreeable, and you can reckon you'll buy 'em.

Pub Date: June 12, 1967

ISBN: 039442929X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION