Deborah Donohue

Contributions

The American Bashkir Curly

Photography by Caren Schumann “Mysterious” is the one word everyone in the horse world can agree upon when discussing the origins of the unusual, curly-coated American Bashkir Curly Horse, also referred to as North American Curly, American Curly, or simply the Curly Horse. Horses with curly coats, depicted as far back as 161 AD in...

Wild at Heart: The Exmoor Pony

Imagine walking onto the British Isles before they were actually islands! Legend has it, that the ancestors of the Exmoor Pony did just that! The Exmoor are considered by many to be direct descendants of the wild ponies that migrated from Alaska to Britain approximately 130,000 years ago, when a northern land bridge connected the continents. The...

Winter Wonderland

Boone Nolte, a strapping young Architect and avid outdoorsman has taken a rough and tumbled, falling down, 1000 square foot homestead from the 1880s and created a vintage vacation cabin, its authentic Old West patina polished with comfortable modern amenities. Nolte, an architect with Locati Architects in Bozeman, Mt. (COWGIRL featured founder Jerry Locati’s home...

Boutique Breed: Miniature Horses

Though miniature horses have been bred for at least 400 years, it is often misunderstood just what defines these diminutive charmers other than their small stature. Miniature equines come in a variety of coat colors and patterns. In fact, some can be cross-registered as a Miniature Appaloosa or Miniature American Paint Horse. Like all horses,...

Artistic Adobe

When native Minnesotan Jan Anderson first visited Arizona as a child, she discovered a natural affinity with the brilliant light, desert hues, and storied history of the ancient land that included Montezuma’s Castle and Mesa Verde. In 1997, Anderson and her late husband decided to build their own version of a hilltop Paradise, one that...

Lucky Charms

Connemara is a land of brilliant blue lakes, remote beaches, barren and craggy mountains, peat dotted landscapes, desolate moors, and often treacherous bogs; a land where a sense of mystery pervades and the ancient language of Gaelic is still spoken. It is here, in northwest Ireland’s County Galway that the Connemara Pony developed its will...

The Saltwater Ponies

Chincoteague Ponies were immortalized in 1947 with the release of the book Misty of Chincoteague by author Marguerite Henry, and the Chincoteague Pony (also known as the Assateague Horse) has since captured the imagination of both children and adults alike.  Inspired by a pony foaled on Chincoteague Island and purchased by the author as a...

Friesian Horses: Legacy of A Midnight Colored Mount

Friesian horses, the “Black Pearls” of the equine world are, like all pearls, perfectly at home in the water. Take care when fording rivers or streams atop these luminous steeds or you might just go for an unplanned swim! The Friesians’ affinity for water dates back to the breed’s birthplace in the Frisian Islands, an...

The Peruvian Horse

“Azteca, as noble as his name steps out over rocky paths, picking through obstacles, white legs dashing a four beat gait. Azteca, as noble as his name, carries me up rocky roads, past people, cars and town. far out beyond it all, to lands where panthers roam. Azteca, swinging his Spanish gait, tireless legs slashing,...
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