The Hearts of Horses (Audiobook)

from alikat

Martha Lessen is a sturdy girl with a love for horses. In 1917, when many of the men in Eastern Oregon have gone to war and ranch hands are in demand, Martha sets out to find work breaking horses. But her method is not to 'break' them so much as gentle them. She makes an instant impression, stand...

from CatieN

The setting is the West during World War I. Martha Lessen is 19 years old, a big girl, bigger than some of the men she meets, who loves horses and dreams of the past, living in the "Wild West," riding bareback across the Plains. In reality, Martha has left a miserable life with her parents and br...

from Eye_Gee

This book is the story of an unconventional young woman who leaves the farm where she grew up, and strikes out on her own to find work breaking horses. It is set in the early 1900's, in the mountains out west. Her techniques with horses are gentle, unlike those commonly used on ranches at the tim...

from satyridae

An extraordinary book. Most of her books have had what felt to me to be a large remove from the emotions and inner lives of her characters. This issue is present here, but to a lesser extent, and because of who the characters are, it works. The writing is luminous. The pace is slow, measured, an...

from TimBazzett

A peaceful story in a world at war - This was my first exposure to the fiction of Molly Gloss. Wow! And I mean that in the most complimentary John-Denver-Rocky-Mountain-High kinda way. No, it's not the Colorado Rockies in the sixties, but the mountains of eastern Oregon in the teens, 1917-18 that...