Horse & Dog Adventures in Early California: Short Stories & Poems

(Short stories, survival) "Simple language and homespun charm. ... A bit of everything: adventure, melancholy, joy ... common sense and pathos." - Barbara Monjica. Ransom "Doc" Wilcox's adventures began in Taber, Alberta, Canada in 1907, but he was soon whisked to the back country of Northern California where his family farmed, tended livestock, and sometimes got by via hunting and fishing-always with the horses and dogs. Once, when the hunter became the prey-of a charging wild boar-Wilcox stuck…