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meet decemberBuckle Bunny

Julie Cialini

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This Is Us...

I am a writer and a marketing professional by trade inclusive of the equine industry.

I was reared on my Uncle’s Quarter Horse ranch upstate NY. I currently own one smart, funny, 8 year old Thoroughbred mare named Raiderette, Raider to her friends. She is the love of my life and the bane of my existence depending on the day, or the moment.

I had become aware of the plight of the wild mustangs, horses and burros about six years ago. As the drama mounted so did my involvement as a “messenger”. I began to receive a daily crush of emails from the mustang groups to help raise money, donate and correspond to the government and the BLM. I quickly realized there was a need for one platform for this message. One that was informative, educational and entertaining. One that delivered the mustang message with a spirit of hope and not, predominantly, doom.

My database of friends, equestrians, cowboys, horse enthusiasts and “city slickers” needed to be activated. I further considered how to get “urban cowboys”, Joe Wall St. and Mary Real Estate, who were not horse people, did not know about wild free-roaming mustangs, aware of these majestic animals. After all, these horses are their American Icons as well, and another beautiful, peaceful species being systematically eliminated. These folks would probably never read a traditional “horse” magazine. How would I grab their attention and provoke them to get involved?

From the Editor’s Desk

Eureka! The BIG IDEA!! And staying true to my media background, a lifestyle maga-zine with a sexy, glamorous horsewoman on the cover. Heck, what is more attractive than a majestic horse and a beautiful woman? And together in one magazine?

I am a man-lovin fool and I know the answer to that question! Then the “Buckle Bunny” name for the cover girls hopped into my head and this added a unifying thread to the entire concept. Not to mention a major industry buzz. And so marked the birth of trueCOW-BOYmagazine in January 2009!

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FEATURES • America’s Wild Horses, Critical Crossroads

• Our Mustangs, Our American Icons

• Willie Nelson An American Icon

• Good Read

• December’s Buckle Bunny Julie Cialini

• The Haunting Of The St. James Hotel

• Buckle Bunny Baxter Clay Makes Our Day

• Tracking The Elusive Buckle Bunny

• Wild Love

• Roy Rogers, Trigger and Bullet, True American Icons

• He’s A Cowboy

• 20A William Shatner

• Getting The Last Laugh

• Here Comes The Sun

• The Wild Mustang Christmas

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Meet this month’s feature Buckle Bunny Julie Cialini. shot on Location: Trails end Ranch, Chatsworth, CA.

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America’s Wild Horses, Critical Cross-RoadsBy Valerie James-Patton and Cindy McDonald

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) was created in 1934 to regulate public lands

livestock grazing. Over time, their authority expanded to multiple uses and the agency was charged with managing America’s wild horses and burros after populations had dwindled from nearly two million to an estimated ten thousand and public outcry prompted Congress to pass the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act in 1971 that safeguarded wild horses and burros as: ‘’living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West, that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people”, and “are to be considered as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands”. Although the law clearly states “all management activities shall be at the minimal feasible level” and wild horses and burros are to be protected from “capture, branding, harassment and death”, BLM manages these animals through a system based on violations of the Act’s intent and many times, the law itself.

In the past decade, over 100,000 equines have been captured, branded, sterilized, injected with fertility control drugs, segregated by sex, and subjected to skewed sex ratios, unnatural herd structures, and even experimentation.

Helicopter stampedes frequently cause injury and death, with an average mortality rate of 14%.Removed from public lands set aside for their preservation, the wild horses are stockpiled at privately owned long-term holding facilities located across the US. Once they are on private property, the public has no access to verify either animal health or numbers.

Since its inception, the program has been fraught with allegations of wide spread corruption and abuse. Between 1992 and 1996, a Texas grand jury investigation was shut down despite allegations of over 32,000 missing animals.

Testimony from a BLM informant to the Department of Justice described how stolen BLM horses would be transported in the night as “slicks” (no brand) and sold to kill

buyers, or transported to satellite ranches. The paper work was covered by double-booking (same brand on several horses with one legitimate and several fake papers). He claimed, “You can’t enforce a common practice that’s been going on for years and years.”

“Helicopter stampedes frequently cause injury

and death, with an average mortality rate of 14%”

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The BLM escaped prosecution for the decades long horse theft program, when it was concluded to be so vast no one individual could be held accountable. Then an OIG investigation in 1997 found BLM facility records heavily padded with phantom (nonexistent) horses. The BLM respond-ed by announcing their intent to shut down the long-term holding program, but later, as the mat-ter of falsified records and missing horses was forgot-ten, reversed course and expanded it instead.

Since 1971, at least 27 million acres have been removed from wild horse and burro use, much of it be-cause the BLM claimed the land could not sustain them. large numbers of livestock remain, despite GAO audits reporting the “BLM could not provide any information demonstrating rangeland condi-tions significantly improved because of remov-als” and “This lack of impact has occurred largely because BLM has not reduced authorized grazing by domestic livestock, which because of their vast numbers consume 20 times more forage.”

Recently, officials buried healthy rangeland reports by their own specialist in order to justify the removal of 1,922 wild horses in the Calico Mountains of Nevada. This ultimately resulted in 160 deaths, including two foals whose hooves were literally run off, and at least 40 mares who aborted foals after being chased for miles over sharp, volcanic rock.

Statistical errors are also rampant. Watchdogs found the BLM initially failed to report over 2,900 removals in last years national gather schedule. In Holding Facility reports, 2,000 were found missing in June after a similar discrepancy was discovered less than six month earlier. The BLM also included horses from the Toana area in national reports for four years but later claimed

they weren’t really “wild”. They were then transferred to the state agriculture department and sold at auction. In 2004, a rider was covertly slipped into the Appropriations Act by Senator Burns, gutting former protections and granting the BLM “unlimited sale” of animals 10 years or older or who had failed to be adopted after three tries. However, BLM insists sales are minimal due to an intent clause prohibiting their purchase for slaughter. So in 2008, they proposed mass euthanasia in efforts to reduce escalating costs; public and Congressional outrage followed.

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In response, the BLM selected a team to study alternative management op-tions making it appeared the euthanasia plan was out. Yet when two in-ternal draft reports were exposed through the Freedom of Information Act, it became clear officials were still considering this option. Discussions in-cluded killing them at “more secured locations” and “insulate those doing the actual work from the public, media and Congressional scrutiny/criti-cism”. Much of what was discussed in these reports became the foundation of a new direction for the program Secretary Ken Salazar is now trying to execute after Congress mandated reform last year.

Calls to increase transparency have been met with increasing resistance and many BLM claims have proven false. At the Tuscarora gather, the BLM is-sued orders to close both public lands and air space in the area.

When advocates went to court demanding access, the judge ruled in their favor, but the BLM moved gather operations to private lands. Later, it was exposed they had no authority to close air space . At the Twin Peaks gather, the New York Times exposed long-time helicopter contractor Dave Cattoor’s efforts to censor photographs. He instructed his staff, “If something hap-pens, correct it quickly. A broken leg, we’re gonna put it down, slide it in a trailer and go into town with it. We’re not gonna give ‘em that one shot they want”…

Today, 35,592 horses and burros are reportedly warehoused in government pens, at a cost expected to exceed $34 million in FY 2010. Half of the BLM’s 2009 FY $65.5 million budget went directly to pay private helicopter contractors for the removal of thousands more animals, while the additional cost of care of those already held in facilities reached nearly $29 million.

It is fiscally irresponsible to remove wild horses and burros from public lands at a cost exceeding $2,600 per individual in order to substitute a cow/calf pair that grazes for $1.35/month. This to support a federally subsidized grazing program costing taxpayers up to $500 million dollars annually while providing only 2% of the nation’s beef.

The BLM reports 38,000 equines still remain on the range, but few advocates believe this figure. They have called for an audit, an independent census and a moratorium on the round ups pending Congressional investigation. Despite numerous lawsuits and a recent letter signed by over fifty members of Congress supporting the moratorium, the BLM has so far refused to reverse course and intends to gather over 15,000 equines next year. However, plans to relieve the situation for some of the wild horses are in progress. Madeleine Pickens is trying to start a large wild horse sanctuary in Nevada, and New Mexico’s Gov. Richardson is working on a state sponsored sanctuary.

Meanwhile, America’s wild horses and burros remaining on the range as well as those standing in pens await their fate.

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Our Mustangs, Our American Iconsby Terry Fitch

erry Fitch is the sort of gifted artist that visualizes a full range of beauty in almost all that surrounds her and, from

behind the lens of her camera, there is little that escapes her itchy shutter finger.

As of late, Fitch’s photographic fervor has turned towards the desperate plight of American wild horses and burros. No stranger to equine advocacy, Fitch and her husband, author R.T. Fitch, began rescuing horses while they lived on assignment down in Brazil during the late ‘90s.

She made a promise to a little Mangalarga Marchador cart horse to bring him home with

her and to this day “Apache” lives a life of leisure on their Texas farm.

Fitch has been busy snapping pictures of rescued horses since she was an officer for Habitat for Horses and instrumental in organizing the Equine Rescue relief for both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It is the movement, grace and language of the wild horse that has pulled both her to the western deserts to photograph the last of our swiftly vanishing wild horses and burros.

To photograph the wild equines in their natural habitat is a compelling passion for Fitch.

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“They speak to me so clearly,” says Fitch, “It’s in their eyes calling out to me”.

Terry’s work speaks to the soul of the viewer as the horses project their thoughts and emotion through the lens of her camera and directly into the heart of all who view her work. Terry captures the icy reality of their current plight, helicopter round ups and gathers into long and short term BLM holding pens, with absolute clarity and focus.

While photographs of wild horses running free in their natural environment captures the souls of all who view them, Fitch is currently focused on the visual documentation and end result of our Federal government’s agenda of removing all wild equids from public land.

pains me beyond all possible description to view our majestic, American icons held in concentration camp

type surroundings,” says Fitch, “but the American public needs to know and see the truth behind one of the biggest crimes being committed right before our very public eyes.”

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taken on a documentary and legal evidential theme. “It’s a scary proposition laying your entire life’s savings on the line for litigation against the federal government but my husband, R.T., and I can go to sleep at night knowing that we are doing what is the best for the wild ones,” confides Fitch, “That in its own right gives us peace.”

The beauty of the horses running free and the squandering of said beauty makes up the crux of Terry Fitch’s portfolio and it is her most sincere wish that the paradox that is displayed speaks volumes to the hearts and souls of every free spirited human being that views her work.

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trueCOWBOYmagazine: I know you are aware of the plight of the wild mustangs. What have you done personally to help them?Willie Nelson: It’s a day to day thing. Today, I’m talking to you. I’m trying to figure out what to do, like so many others who care about horses, animals and our lands. I adopted some horses from a rescue that took place in Alliance, Nebraska. The offending rancher had received these rounded up, wild horses from the BLM as a last ditch effort for them to live out their lives. But it didn’t happen that way. He was abusing them, not feeding them and had shut up the wells. They were dying and he was going to send them to slaughter. I was able to save some of them. I now have 70 or so horses on my ranch. I’m thinking of tying the wild mustangs plight into the Farm Aid concerts.

tCmag: What do you think about the BLM roundups and short and long term holding pens?WN: Sadly, it looks like the deck is stacked up against us at the moment. The BLM are destroying the wild horses and in doing so, our environment. I am a horse lover, these beautiful animals are smarter than we are. People need to know that they are the reason we are here. I travel so much I can’t spend as much time with my family, horses and animals, as I’d like. So when I’m home I overdo it.

tCmag: Farm aid has been in existence for 25 years, too what do you attribute its success?WN: Oct 2, 2010 was our 25th Anniversary with Farm Aid. Way back then, while on the road, I was talking to Big Jim Thompson, the Governor of Illinois, at the time. I asked him what can we do to help the farmers? The answer was Farm Aid. The rest is history.

I am seriously considering a Farm Aid concert in California. There is a lot of great talent in Cali-fornia, includ-ing my friends Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, to name a few, who would join us. We can tie it all together, the farmers and the mustangs. I know people re-ally do care about our farmers, our animals and our ecology.

It’s all tied together. Help the farmers, help the animals, help the land. We need to get back to the basics and away from factory farms, chemicals and fertilizers. Get back to local sustainable food sources, our farmers, ourselves. I do believe our current, suffering economy is sending us back that way and is contributing to our independent sustainability. It is causing us to grow our own food and survive independently. Local farmers will begin to flourish again if we support them and buy their food products.

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People with a little patch of dirt are growing their own vegetables and food. Some people are even growing food on walls and on roof top gardens in New York City.

tCmag: How did BioWillie come about and what is it? WN: One day, several years ago, my wife said she wanted a Mercedes and wanted to run it on vegeta-ble oil. I told her she was crazy and it would ruin the engine. She dis-agreed, insisting there was a way to get it done. As it turned out, she was right and there was a way to make it work. We have friends in Maui who had developed bio-diesel fuel tech-nology and took the idea to them. We fill our Mer-cedes’ with bio-diesel, vegetable fuel, and our cars run smoothly and continue to do so. Bio-diesel fuel works and we are proof, amongst many of others, who run their vehicles on alternative bio-fuel. I talk to alot of truckers on my radio show and asked them about bio-diesel. 100% said they can find it and get better gas mileage using it. That it is cleaner and less wear on their engines making them easier to maintain. They say their tail pipes smell like french fries.

An American IconIt has taken hold in the trucking industry. I have, along with some friends, built a bio-diesel plant in Carls Corner, Texas. The truck stop there sells bio-diesel fuel all day long. Bottom line, it works. We have to continue to create alternative fuels and work towards getting our country off foreign oil dependency as it creates and sustains war at the cost of young lives doing the government’s bid-ding overseas. Until the government can figure

it out, utilize and support alternative fuel with the aim of independence from any overseas oil supply we will continue to be in-volved in wars. At massive numbers of human lives lost and staggering eco-nomical costs to all of us.

The farmers can grow our fuel and our food in the same crop at the same time. They

use to do it back in the days of early ethanol. The farmers had their own farms to grow corn and did so. But, during the Prohibition Era, the gov-ernment claimed the farmers were growing corn for alcohol manufacturing and distribution. That claim was not true, but the farmers were shut down regardless. Today, we are, our farmers, our wild mustangs, are up against big oil companies with deep pockets, Continued on page 28

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tCmag: You’re on the road a lot. Why is that? WN: It’s safer on the road. People who know us, me and my family, know that we have always been involved in conservation.

We like to stir things up. We can’t stand to see an animal suffer, much less people. We

care. I have a whole lot of friends who care. My friends help and we share the same beliefs. I can’t

do these things alone. We have to work together to create a positive impact and change on this planet. The alternative is a sorry one and one that is simply unacceptable. My life philosophy is this, and I ask myself everyday, what can I do today to help somebody? I grew up in a religious family and environment and those lessons are part of who I am. I still believe in the golden rule; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. That’s the basic philosophy that runs through all religions and runs through me.

tCmag: Thank you, Willie, for taking the time to talk with me and for all you do to help others, the farmers and our wild mustangs. You are truly an American Icon. WN: That’s very kind of you to say so and I am happy to help. If you need any more help, just call me.

as there is a lot of money in oil and gas. That’s a hard one to beat. It is all about the money. Added to that is the further problem that our government also owns the army and employs our young people to go do they’re bidding overseas.

tCmag: Willie, you’re 77 years old. Where do you get your energy? WN: I don’t know. I have been very fortunate in my life. I have always been active in sports and stay physically active now. I just came back from a bike ride here in New Orleans before I perform tonight at the House of Blues. Physical activity along with live performances has a lot to do with it.

tCmag: Are you recording a new album currently? WN: Yes, I am in the studio working on a new album with my son Lukas. I wrote a song “Peaceful Solution” with my daughter, Amy, on our way to a concert in Coachella a few years back. I have allowed and encourage folks to download it, record it and use it as they see fit. Over 500 people worldwide have done so. My son sings it in his shows.


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Arriving in Los Angeles from Rochester, New

York, our December Buckle Bunny, Julie

Cialini, answered the beckoning call of Playboy magazine. “I got involved with Playboy through Venus Swimwear who I modeled for at the time.” says Julie, “The agent responsible for hiring the Venus models was also a scout for them, and he submitted my photos to them. To my surprise and delight, I was picked to be a Playboy Playmate. That escalated to winning the reader vote title of “Playmate of the Year,” she smiles, “it was a very exciting time for a young gal from Rochester. The same year I became a Playmate is also the same year I got the job as a model presenter for the Price Is Right and that led to another spread in the magazine. Playboy was very generous and an encouraging mentor for my modeling career.”

Always athletic, Julie loves to push the envelope by driving NASCAR’s that reach 140 mph and is currently the spokes model for The IMIS (International Motorsports Industry Show) as well as an avid horsewoman. “I guess I just like speed and am exhilarated by driving fast cars and riding fast horses,” says Julie. The demands of her spokes modeling career find Julie traveling frequently, signing autographs and living out of a suitcase. “I love to travel and visit new places meeting new people. It can be exhausting but it is part of the position and what I do, for now. I always try to keep a positive outlook on life and leave the same happiness with everyone I meet.”

When not on the road, Julie splits her time between helping children and helping animals. “I spend a lot of my spare hours volunteering for my vet for the past 15 years. I have two hairless

cats, Buddy and Sammy, and just adore them, she smiles, and “they are definitely spoiled. This breed, I have found after owning six throughout the years, are more like dogs in temperament and attitude and they love to ride in cars. They are very social.”, says Julie, “I’d like to get more involved with helping children and animals as there’s always the need for more help.”

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Recalling her first time on a horse, Julie beams, “I was very young the first time I was on a horse. I think it was seventh grade and I really loved it. Being on a big horse, galloping along with the wind in their mane and my hair, there is a sense

of freedom and peace that absorbs you. It is a special feeling and one that has to be experienced to truly be understood.”

“It is very upsetting to see what is being done to the Wild Mustangs. The roundups, broken herd families

and long-term penning are very heartbreaking. I will do anything I can to make it stop which

is why I posed for trueCOWBOYmagazine, to help support its mission to save our last

symbol of freedom, the wild mustangs. Animals give us so much love, they are so innocent and it’s our position to protect them, not harm them. It is a horrible shame what we are doing to them”, says Julie, “it is

unfair and cruel to any animal, and especially to our

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We are pleased to present our December Buckle Bunny,

Ms. Julie Cialini.

I was happy to contribute to trueCOWBOYmagazine firstly because the Editor in Chief is a wonderful woman and also a friend and secondly, because I would do anything for animals since I am a huge animal lover!”

Reflecting on her life, Julie is thankful for all she has achieved. “I have great friends and family and that makes me very happy”, she says, “if you have those things everything else is just a bonus”.

“It is truly important to always follow your dreams. I believe that if you want something in life the more you put in the more you get back. Treat people the way you want to be treated and when you do good things, good things will happen to you,” smiles Julie. Good things do happen for Julie and we are happy that Julie happened to us.

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I arrived in Cimarron, New Mexico at dusk. The lighted sign of the St. James Hotel was a welcomed beacon. En-tering through its’ heavy wooden doors, the warmth from inside beckoned cordially and I stepped in to an era of yesteryear from the 1880’s, the legendary, haunted, St. James Hotel. Originally called the Lambert’s Saloon, es-tablished, owned and operated by French Chef Henri Lambert in 1872, the estab-lishment was a popular place for outlaws and gunslingers to have a drink, gamble, fight, and, for those unfortunates, loose their lives during heated arguments that usually ended with smoking pistols. Fa-mous cowboys and outlaws of the Old West sauntered in as they rode through town: Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill Cody, Jesse James, Black Jack Ketchum and Clay Allison, some running from the law, some with killing on their minds. Its rowdy reputation for gunfights and death did nothing to deter, probably encour-aged, folks to take their chances while imbibing there. Fights were so common that Lambert placed a sign over the bar: “Gents will please leave their six guns behind the bar while in town. This will lessen the customary collections for fu-nerals.” Due to its success, the Lamberts added 30 rooms to the saloon in 1880, and renamed the establishment the St. James Hotel.

“You’ll be in Room 23, the “Waite Phil-lips” room at the top of the stairs,” says the receptionist. Reaching for the room key and turning toward the carpeted hall, another woman in late 1800’s attire caught my eye as she slowly walked up the stairs. Staff, a guest, a ghost? I shifted my eyes from the woman on the stairs to the receptionist and when I returned my gaze, the stairway was empty. The woman, or the apparition, had vanished.

I shook my head and wondered if the legends had already caused my imagination to run wild. As I climbed the steps, a faint perfume of roses lingered in the air, along with an omnipresent chill.

I placed the key in the lock, turned and pushed the knob, only to have the door open and then firmly slam shut before I could enter. I tried again only to receive the same result, as if someone was on the other side. The third time, I put my shoul-der to the door and went flying into the room as it freely swung open.

Inside “Room 23”, I was transported back in time. Its’ décor style was of the Old West era in the highest of style and comfort. The sitting room has an old desk, mirror and chair and as I checked my hair in the mirror, I saw the faint line of a cowboy standing next to me. My heart jumped inside my chest. Quickly, I turned to catch the intruder, but, once again, the “ap-parition” had vanished. I nervously unpacked my suitcase and took my time changing clothes. Upon leaving my room, I began to explore the up-stairs of the hotel. I noticed the care to detail, authenticity and intelligent de-sign that maintained the ambience of this romantic and historical charmer. I trailed my fingers along the wall and imagined myself walking these halls in the late 1800’s.

I noticed all of the rooms door transoms were shut, save for the one belonging to “Room 18” and, oddly, its door was padlocked and bolted from the outside. A warning?

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I turned back down the hallway and could smell cigar smoke. Before I could investigate, the hotel histo-rian, Judy Kahlor, beckoned me for my tour and to regale me with the historic tales and haunting’s of the St.James Hotel.

Gunslingers notoriously took out their grievances in the dining room and the ceiling is a testament to those fatal ar-guments still bearing the bullet holes from these rowdy and mortal brawls of yore. In fact, when the rooms over that ceiling were constructed, Lam-bert made them three feet thick to prevent room guests from being shot while in bed. Pictures on the wall show the Lambert family: Henri, his second wife Mary and the Lambert children. Pointing to the picture of Mary, Kahlor said, “One of our ghosts is Mary. Guests often smell her per-fume when she is around. We call her the protector of the hotel.” “What does her perfume smell like?” I asked knowing the answer. “Roses.”

We continued the tour upstairs and neared the area I had smelled the ci-gar smoke earlier but now the aroma was gone.

A poker room was on our left replete with stacked chips and cards, eerily waiting for players. This room had hosted many poker games, with the most notable one played in 1881. In a high stakes game, rumor has it that Henri Lambert bet the hotel in the last hand and lost it to Thomas James Wright. However, T.J. Wright never claimed ownership. While returning to his room that very night, Wright met his un-timely death with a bullet hole to the back.

He made it to his room, “Room 18”, where he spent the next three days bleeding to death. Though Lam-bert was never accused or charged with the murder, one can only assume that he would have been reluc-

tant to forfeit his hotel due to an un-lucky draw of the cards.

Judy explained to me that Wright is a very angry ghost and does not take kindly to visitors. When guests start-ed mysteriously dying in that room, it became unbookable and off limits to all visitors. I looked up and the tran-som was firmly closed. Upon com-menting about it, Judy responded, “You saw it open?” both alarmed and intrigued. I nodded in reply. Judy said, “When the transom is open, Wright is walking the grounds or playing poker. When it is closed, he is in his room and does not want to be disturbed.” She nervously looked at the door. “We should probably move away from here.”

At the end of the tour, we walked back to my room, “Room 23”. “A cow-boy ghost likes to hang out in your room,” said Judy, “But don’t worry. He is a cowboy with a sense of hu-mor. He likes to play with the doors and lights.”

In 2008, Bob Funk purchased the ho-tel, and under the supervision of manager Steve Boyce, it has undergone $2 million in renovation upgrades while maintaining the original motif, décor and charm of its origins. The St. James Hotel has a World-Class Chef and restaurant, luxurious rooms with all of the modern conveniences of Five Star hotels, top-notch service and accommodating, friendly staff.

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“My mom rode all the time

in Canada and I caught “horse fever” from her before I could even walk” smiles Baxter. “My family and I traveled exten-sively, and I was fortunate to ride some great horses in some great countries like Bali and France. Traveling is one of my great passions, after horses. I ride wherever I travel too and

have experienced equine “personalities” of all breeds.” “I ride a young, spirited Thoroughbred named Raiderette”. She’s a black-typed,

stakes placed mare who is now a trail horse but demonstrates a strong leaning towards jumping. Raiderette is very fast and a sweet baby. I am learning a lot from her. I ride an off-beat mixture of both English and Western and enjoy trail riding with my big mare embracing nature, not ribbons”, laughs Baxter. “I’ve been taught to ride a bit dif-ferently using my mind and not my body. I love the spiritual connection with Raiderette. And I know she does too, I can sense it.”

“Since I can remember I’ve always dreamed of owning a ranch and rescuing mustangs, any horse in danger, really”, she says pensively, “What is happening to our mighty mus-tangs is worse than a travesty, it’s a sin and one that we will be paying for, for a very long time if the roundups, penning and slaughter are not stopped now.

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“My mom rode all the time in Canada and I caught “horse fever” from her before I could even walk”

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My heart aches for these poor creatures. I become infuriated at the flagrant disregard of their freedom which is quickly being swept out from underneath them by the BLM. When I was asked to pose for tCmag and learned it’s mission to raise awareness of this issue, I

jumped on it. I’ll do anything I can to help save this beautiful part of our living history.”

“Most people expect someone or something completely different when they meet me. And they’re right, I am completely different”, laughs Baxter, “I am simple,

yet complicated. There is much more to me than meets the eye.”

Our Buckle Bunny: Baxter Clay, both eye-catching and breathtaking!


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I am in Tucson, in search of the elusive Buckle Bunny,

aka “a rodeo groupie,” “wrangler inspector,” or “cowboy groupie.” According to Wikipedia.

“A Buckle Bunny is a female fan of rodeo who purposefully seeks encounters with contestants who have proven successful in their events. The term is named for the buckles that are awarded to the winners in rodeo.” Buckle bunnies may or may not be able to ride a horse, but they sure as heck admire those who can. Buckle Bunnies can be tricky to track because they blend in well with the average rodeo female fans. In the confines of the dusty rodeo grounds, they strut in search of the oh-so-rugged and sometimes naive rodeo cowboy.

Bunnies on the prowl dress for the kill. They wear tight jeans, skimpy tops, fancy boots, push-up bras and oversized, flashy belt buckles to lure in their prey. However, they should not be mistaken for rodeo aficionados who innocently don similar outfits, or the “wannabes” who seemingly attempt to pass themselves off as the real thing by wearing T-shirts bearing suggestive slogans such as, “My Weakness is Cowboys”; “Wicked Wench of the West”; and the ever popular, “Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.” Faux Versus Real.There are subtle signs that the trained eye can look for to help sort the wannabes from the diehard groupies. Wannabes often have grown children in tow, usually females who could be mistaken for their sisters. After all, 40 is the new 20. Maybe they just want a little attention and an excuse to wear tight, sexy outfits for a few hours. Oh, come on, who doesn’t?

By Lorraine A. DarConte

Wannabes just happen to have the guts to do it. Chances are good they will go home with the kids and put the pink boots and matching hat back in the closet until next year. Real Buckle Bunnies can bat their eyelashes at record-breaking speeds and stop a cowboy dead in his tracks with a quick but lethal flash of cleavage.

Buckle Bunnies stalk their prey alone and in packs, sometimes slowly circling a small group of cowboys, looking for an opportunity to pounce, sometimes going straight for the kill — “Hi, I’m Sierra! ” — honing their aim

with a vibrant smile, perky banter and a well-timed hair flip. They strategically position themselves at the contestant entrance, and if they are lucky or have connections, inside the chute area.

Bars and nightclubs that cater to the cowboy crowd also serve as a bunny hunting ground. Here in Tucson, I am told, one such watering hole is Cactus Moon, a place where Buckle Bunnies can display their own “two step.” Being a pretty bunny has its advantages, but those in the know have honed other skills, such as cooking and dancing. Sometimes a little fancy footwork is all that’s needed to land the cowboy of their dreams. A wrangler may never know what hit him until he wakes up the next morning in the bunny’s warren just as she, or he, planned.

There are, of course, cowboys who are ready, willing and able to be “trapped” by a bunny. Only time will tell whether it’s a relationship that will last a lifetime or only the run of the rodeo.

Tracking the Elusive

Buckle Bunny

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Most cowboys don’t mind the attention, though sometimes they’re a little surprised by it. According to the Peek brothers, Josh, Jon and Jeremiah, girls have asked them to walk slowly so they can photograph their cowboy butts. “Sometimes during autograph sessions, girls slip their phone numbers in our pockets,” says Josh, who met his girlfriend at a rodeo. “Buckle bunnies are looking for a good time, hanging out in bars looking for cowboys and are out to dance,” says Josh. “There’s nothing wrong with that. We never look down on anybody in our sport.”

Rodeo isn’t the only sport with bunnies. They have multiplied and staked out other arenas. There are Beckham bunnies (soccer), end-zone bunnies (football), puck bunnies (hockey), basket bunnies (basketball), and baseball bunnies that often can be seen wearing pink, sparkly “Mrs. Jeter” T-shirts.

Strange as it may seem, buckle bunnies have gotten a bum rap over the years, which is pretty unfair considering being caught by one is, for the most part, a victimless crime. “Calamity” Cate Crismani, the publisher of trueCOWBOYmagazine, which features stunning Buckle Bunnies on the covers, would like to change the world’s perception of these often-misunderstood creatures.

However, Crismani’s version of a Buckle Bunny is a little different from the popular one. These bun-nies actually know how to ride a horse. “They’re just ordinary gals doing extraordinary things in life, and love horses. They are confident, attractive, and sexy,” states Crismani. trueCOWBOYmaga-zine is dedicated, and has a stated mission, to saving our American Icon, the wild mustangs, and the sexy women on the covers are meant to attract the “urban cowboy” and “city slicker”firstly, and then educate them about the mustangs’ plight with the end result of involvement and con-tribution.” “A sexy cowgirl is universal,” says Cris-mani, “and I think ‘Buckle Bunny’ is an adorable tag. By featuring horsewomen on the covers that are beautiful, passionate, savvy, compassionate and family oriented, I hope to redefine the image of the Buckle Bunny.”

Let’s hope Calamity Cate is successful, so Buckle Bunnies everywhere can stand tall knowing they are contributing to saving our wild mustangs, and, maybe just to get a better look at the cowboy in the tight Wranglers on the other side of the grandstands.

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These are our public lands and our wild horses. This is about you and generations of all life to come. Hope Ryden, Velma Johnson (aka Wild Horse Annie) and Joan Blue of the American Horse Protection Association, conferred with Congressman Walter Baring in 1971 to draft legislation which became known as the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act.

It was later gutted by Sena-tor Conrad Burns of Mon-tana in November 2004. His action was criminal, inhumane and an example of man at his worst. The result has been devastating with countless deaths and a nightmare spinning out of control.

And, what of the mustangs left in the wild? How are they faring after their num-bers have been so decimat-ed by BLM current helicop-ter roundups? Some herds have lost so many members there is reason to fear they may no longer be viable and will go the way of the dino-saur.

Yet the BLM plans to continue reducing their numbers, most likely too the wild mustang’s final demise.

It is worth noting that such drastic culling will reduce wild horse population to fewer animals than existed in 1971, when Con-

gress saw fit to protect them.

It was certainly not the inten-tion of Congress then to manage them at such perilous levels. By contrast, private enterprise and leasing of public lands for cattle grazing and commerce has in-creased dramatically.

Yet, it is the wild horse that is singled out as a threat to water-sheds and to the environmental health of our public lands, an al-legation unsupported by actual data.

Since 2005 this nightmare and the wild horse casualties has continued to escalate dramati-cally, all thanks to Senator Con-rad Burns and his like-minded supporters in ranching and re-lated businesses. These folks have one thing in mind: lining their pockets with your taxpay-ing money. It is unbelievable that such a criminal, devious act could not only be successfully had, but then be so difficult to overturn.

The system is, sadly, very broken.

So, this is why we have “Wild Love” and it’s about each and every one of us and for the wild ones, now and forever.

WILD LOVE

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When we think of American Icons, we can’t help but think of cowboys. At the top of that list would be Roy Rogers, “King of

Cowboys” along with his trusted mount, Trigger, “The Golden Palomino”, and loyal companion, Bullet, “The Wonder Dog”. All are a part of our youths and personal history. All are American Icons.

When I became old enough to have my own horse, my dad asked me what kind of a horse I wanted. Without hesitation, I quickly replied, “Trigger”. I was ten years old and had watched the adventures of Roy Rogers, Trigger and Bullet glued to the television set reli-giously. Unfortu-nately Dad couldn’t buy Trigger for me, but he did get me a Palomino, Palooka Joe. I pretended he was Trigger.

Originally named Golden Cloud, Trigger made his film debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Shortly after that film while in prepa-ration for his first movie, Roy Rogers was offered a choice of five rented “movie” horses to ride. He chose Golden Cloud.

Rogers bought him that same year and renamed him Trigger for his quickness, not only of foot but also of mind. Trigger had 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs.

Trigger was rid-den by Rog-ers in many of his motion pic-tures, beloved by the youthful audience that watched him on film and in Rog-ers’ 1950s televi-sion series with his wife Dale Ev-ans, who rode her trusty buckskin Quarter Horse, Buttermilk. After Trigger died in 1965, Rogers had him mounted and displayed for all to come and see, along with Bullet, at the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California, later the museum was

moved to Branson, Missouri and then closed in 2009.

In July 2010, over 1,000 items from the Roy Rogers Museum were sold at auction at Christies New York. The event brought with it emotions and sentimental memories from millions of fans around the world and hundreds of auction attendees.

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Patrick Gottsch, Founder and President of RFD-TV, was one of those attending the auction. He, like millions of others, had grown up watching Roy Rogers, Trigger and Bullet and credits Rogers as one of the reasons RFD-TV has so much respect for the western lifestyle, rural America and animals. Gottsch, in the end, was the successful bidder of Trigger and Bullet. Since RFD-TV became their caretakers, the letters have poured in filled with love for these true American icons. “It is amazing to read and hear first hand the impact one man made on the lives of so many”, says Gottsch.

In celebration of what would have been the “King of the Cowboys” 100th birthday, RFD-TV is proud to announce their 2011, 48-state tour featuring the iconic duo and aptly named the “Trigger & Bullet Happy Trails Tour” honoring Roy Rogers. The tour will conclude with a float entry in the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade in California.

RFD-TV’s plans are simple. They are going to do everything possible to honor the original reason that Roy Rogers started a museum with Trigger and Bullet in the first place – to keep the western spirit alive. “We see the tour as not only an opportunity for fans to reconnect with Roy, Trigger and Bullet but also as an opportunity to celebrate ten years of RFD-TV, proudly serving rural America, and getting the chance to meet more of our viewers up close and personal”, says Gottsch.

For more information on the tour and RFD-TV, visit www.rfdtv.com

Patrick Gottsch, Founder and President of RFD-TV with daughters Gatsby & Raquel

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He’s a Cowboy, with a hundred years of history

that’s no where near the mystery

and romance on the range the movies show.

He’s like those who rode the Chisholm trail

pushin’ cows from Texas to the rail

when a Cowboy’s Code was all you had to know.

It’s Courage, Strength and Loyalty,

Good Humor, Trust and Decency.

And when he gave his word, he wouldn’t fail.

A man who’d face stampedin’ beeves,

wild Indians and cattle thieves,

then swear there weren’t much trouble on the trail.

He’s a Cowboy

Vaquero blood pumps through his veins

and he is all that now remains

of a breed-a men whose handshake sealed a deal.

His Stetson’s stained with honest sweat,

his boots are scuffed and you can bet

he ain’t no Urban Cowboy; he’s for real.

He’s not afraid of workin’ hard

out in the field or his own back yard

and he gives thanks to God for all His grace

The Cowboy Code says lend a hand

and he does that every time he can

and thanks to him, this world’s a better place.

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The St. James Hotel’s paranormal activity and lore attracted producers from Hollywood replete with a film crew and paranormal “detectives” to document it’s activity culminating in a piece that was featured on the A&E Channel.

The St. James Hotel truly has it all and something few hotels can boast, a history imbued in the Old West and its very own ghosts!

Some friendly advice, when you make your reservations at the St. James Hotel, don’t ask for “Room 18” because it’s permanently “booked” by its sole and haunted guest, the ghost of Thomas James Wright. tCm

Special on the St. James Hotel aired on A&E’s “Ghost Prophecies”


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Way Out West WILLIAM SHATNER

trueCOWBOYmagazine: What makes an American Icon in your view?William Shatner: I’m Canadian, every bit as good. And the dollar’s a lot better. tCm: Do you consider you might be one? WS: An Icon or a Canadian? The thing about be-ing an icon is that you can be moved about by a mouse.

tCm: Star Trek would fall into the American Icon category as well, why do you think it is still such a strong attraction spanning age groups with millions of fans globally? WS: It has a certain universal intelligence.

tCm: While filming Star Trek, did you realize then the impact it would have on your career? WS: I knew it with prescience but it took a generation to become popular.

tCm: Boston Legal was yet another ground-breaking show for you, do you miss it? WS: Well, yes, I miss it because it was such excellent writing.

tCm: Have you seen the parody of yourself on Family Guy? WS: I am a family guy.

tCm: $#*! My Dad Says is your first sitcom. You are simply in demand, why is that? WS: Probably due to my overwhelming sex appeal.

tCm: Do you notice the dis-tinctive cadence to your speech pattern? WS: I seem to notice it more in other people.

tCm: You’ve played all kinds of characters, including cowboys, how have you avoided the trap of stereotyping? WS: By being equally bad in everything.

tCm: What advice would you give to young, upstart actors? WS: Don’t get older.

tCm: You’re an accomplished horseman as well, when did you start riding and why? WS: I started riding thirty odd years ago. I dreamt about it as a kid and as an adult had enough money to buy a horse.

tCm: Of all your horses, which one is your favorite? WS: I have several competition horses, each exhibit exemplary characteristics. My Stallion, War, is a spectacular horse. He will become a breeding stallion this year. He’s about 12. I love all my horses.

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tCm: What riding discipline do you do with him? WS: All my horses are Reiners.

tCm: Have you ever ridden as Captain Kirk, merging the old west with the future age? WS: No. It would be a stupid activity.

tCm: For the past 27 years, you’ve orchestrated and emceed the Hollywood Charity Horse Show raising funds to help children heal with horses. Why? WS: I started the show as a Saddle Bred show, then a Reining Show. It was hard to attract interest and was about to die. I had to reinvent it fast

and it became the Hollywood Charity Horse Show benefiting kids. We have raised millions over the years to help them.

tCm: From where do you get all of your energy? WS: There is a secret spring on my lawn and I drink from its spigot.

tCm: Is there something you still want to achieve in life that has eluded you? WS: Yes.

tCm: Tell us something that nobody knows about you? WS: They don’t know I’m about to hang up on you.

tCm: If you could change anything in your life, what would it be? WS: I would change the rapidity of the passage of time.

tCm: When the time comes, how do you want your tombstone to read? WS: He missed the engagement.

tCm: Thank you, Bill. I stand corrected, you are a Canadian Icon.WS: You’re welcome, my pleasure.

“I AM a “Family Guy”

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Someone told me once, “a great comedian is made like a flawless pearl; both require a little irritation at just the right time in their lives.” For Comedian Cowboy Bill Martin who will be headlining Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club in the Tropicana Las Vegas during National Finals Rodeo Week, December 6-12, that seems to ring true.

The Texas Native who has toured with country music’s elite including George Strait, George Jones, Brad Paisley and Rascal Flatts and headlines his own tour across the U.S. and Canada plus just returned recently from headlining his first tour of the Middle East for our Armed Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the road to stardom started a little over 14 years ago. In a recent interview I asked the comedian/screenwriter, did he always want to be a comedian? Martin said, “No, actually at the age of 5, all I wanted to be was either a country and western singer, or the shortstop for the Texas Rangers or the assistant to the producer of the ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ show.”

I told him that he would have to explain the last one. Martin said, “The assistant to the producer of the ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ show was a guy named William Martin (which is my real name) and I would watch that show in my living room where I grew up in Saginaw, Texas, just to watch my name pop up. And it was there I would say to myself, if that William Martin can make it to Hollywood, so could I. Many years later I would watch the same show for a completely different reason.”

I asked him, “So how did you become a comedian? Where you the class clown.?” Martin said, “Heck no, I was really quite in school. I didn’t even find out I was funny till I was about 30 years old.”Martin said he wrote advertising for what he calls, “nine miserable years after college”. He said, “I used to look out my 4th floor window thinking, ‘would 4 floors kill me or just break

Getting the Last Laughmy leg?’ Then I thought, it would probably just break my leg and it wouldn’t be a good break either. I figured it would be high on the leg where I would have to wear a body cast and a catheter and walk around and as if to say, ‘I hate my job and here’s my poop!’”So I asked then how did you go from being an ad man to a comedian? And Martin quipped, “Divorce of course.”

And then the jovial Martin got real serious for a moment. Martin said, “Actually, comedy saved my life. From the time that I graduated high school till my 29th birthday, I had three close buddies all commit suicides after they broke up with a girl. And in 1996, I was going through my own divorce. I was in the darkest moment of my life.”

Then how did you go from that to this, to headlining Brad Garrett’s Comedy Club during the biggest rodeo week? Martin explained, “Instead of taking option A, like my buddies had picked, I decided to take another route, I started writing about what it was like to be back on the market, in the dance halls, trying to meet women. It was during Garth Brooks and Brooks and Dunn’s hay day, just before line dancing took over. I came up with an unpublished book called, Life Under the Neon Moon Now that She's Gone and Took the Dog with Her. And every told me that it read like stand-up.”

I asked Martin, so is that when you quite writing ads? Martin said, “No, I was fired! Actually, we all got fired. The firm where I worked was sold out from under us and just like that, all of us there were unemployed.”

“And I called everyone I knew to let them know I had just been canned and you know I was amazed with the number of people who put me on hold, except for my grandmother. She told me to go home and look in the mirror and ask myself, “Am I happy?”

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She said, “Just start out with that.” She told me that I was almost 30 years old, and, “I never see you smile.” Martin laughs, “And I would like to say that is what I did, but I didn’t. I actually went home and stayed in the fetal position for 5 ½ months. It would have been 6 but unemployment ran out in 5 ½ in Texas back then.” Martin went on to say, “True story, the UPS guy comes next door and I go tell him that I got fired. You know because when you are throwing a pity party; everyone is invited, including the guy in the ugly brown shorts. I told him I was fired. I was a single dad. I didn’t know how I was going to make ends meet. And he looked at me as if to say, “Good. That’s one less box I need to bring out here.” That afternoon Martin said, he went into the house and turned off the phones, the TV, all the distractions and looked into the mirror and asked himself, “Am I happy?” And the answer was no. And then he said, “What do I want out of life?” And the answer was clear. Martin said he called my grandmother, 4 hours later and said, “The only thing I’ve wanted is to be on stage, television, radio and print.” And she told him, “Go for it.” He said, “what if I lose the house?” She told him that he should, “Buy you another one.” She told him that she didn’t want to him to be 30 or 50 or even 80 and look back on the ‘would-a, could-a, should-a’." And this was from a woman who had just found out that she had a tumor on her lung about the size of his fist and was dying of lung cancer.

As Martin explain, “Maybe she was going thru a little bit of the would-a, could-a, should-a herself. And she didn’t want me to do the same. And I haven’t. And believe me it has been a hell of a ride so far.” tCm

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Marvin S. Hausman, M.D.

The health impacts on horses with Vitamin D deficiency can be many. Researchers in equine health believe that Vitamin D deficiencies in horses contribute to such problems as lameness, swollen joints, weak bones and teeth, and a number of cancers, including melanoma. Hausman notes the following other potential health implications for Vitamin D-deficient horses:

• Decreased immune system function • Tying up disease • Rhabdomyolysis • Poor muscle recovery time • Poor reaction to stress • A potential to develop laminitis

Research on the health benefits of Vitamin D supplementation indicates that Vitamin D, because it strengthens the immune system, might actually better protect people against illnesses such as influenza. Dr. Marvin S. Hausman , a medical scientist and clinician who focuses on developing natural nutritional supplements for horses and people., is the founder of Total Nutraceutical Solutions, a leading international biotech nutritional supplement company that produces medicinal mushroom-based supplements for horses and people. In a few weeks, TNS is releasing a new human mushroom-based nutritional supplement that will provide, in a single capsule, as much Vitamin D as 10 glasses of Vitamin D-fortified milk.

“Just in time for the flu season,” Hausman said.

Hausman is such a believer in the health benefits of Vitamin D for horses and humans that he worked with researchers at Pennsylvania State University to develop a technique to enhance Vitamin D levels in mushrooms. “Food scientists at Penn State developed a process that naturally increases Vitamin D levels in the mushrooms we use in our nutritional products,” Hausman said. “Mushrooms produce D2 naturally. Our mushrooms may start at 240 IUs of D2 per 100 grams of mushroom powder, but after one minute of our patented UV light technology the amounts increase in one minute or less to over 400,000 IUs.”

Hausman said there are different receptors for D2 and D3 in the various tissues and organs of both horses and humans. People and horses need both forms. They should get the most they can of D3 from sunlight and UV light, but that doesn’t eliminate their need for Vitamin D2 supplementation. While D3 is what the skin of the body produces with the help of sunlight, D2 is also needed as an additional dietary supplement.

“D2 is vegan,” Hausman said. “D3 is animal based and not very clean as a synthetic. It generally comes from sheep wool grease or lanolin. D2 is natural, completely vegetarian and is contained within a whole food. No additives, no extracts, and you get exactly what you personally eat or feed your horse.”

Hausman challenges anyone who doubts the effects of Vitamin D deficiency in horses to take a test. “I would argue that nearly every horse has a Vitamin D deficiency because of their modern lifestyle. The way to prove it is to ‘kick the tires’ so to speak. Put your horse on Vitamin D supplements for 30-60 days and you will see a difference. You’ll never go back to letting your horse have this deficiency.”

Horse owners wanting to take up this challenge can order the Vitamin D-rich EquiSANO nutritional supplement on line.

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Vitamin D for horses? Yes, indeed. Research indicates that many horses suffer from Vitamin D deficiency, just as do many people, and the health im-plications for horses are just as serious. Like many mammals, horses need sunlight to aid in the production of Vi-tamin D, but a good many horses spend a lot fewer hours in the sun than nature intended. Modern-day horses are stall-bound, turned out at night during the summer months and when outside are covered by blankets and sheets. And, for many horses there is also the prob-lem of having dark skin. Darker skin pro-duces less Vitamin D from sunlight. All of these things reduce a horse’s access to sunlight and contribute to Vitamin D de-ficiency. Yet, despite the vast amount of recent research on the dangers of Vita-min D deficiency in humans, few seem to be talking about the dangers to horses. In a natural state, horses have ample access to sunshine and thus, Vitamin D deficiency is a more recent equine health issue, but one of growing con-cern. “Animal skin produces Vitamin D3,” said Dr. Marvin Hausman MD, a medical scientist and clinician who fo-cuses on developing natural nutritional supplements for horses and people. “But ultraviolet light comes in at a wrong angle for any location above 34 degrees North Latitude. UV is the main light source for Vitamin D production in the skin of horses and humans and that is why Canada is so concerned about Vitamin D deficiency in humans.” The main function of both Vitamin D2 and D3 in horses, as well as in humans, is to control the absorption, transport and deposition of calcium and phos-phorus. Research indicates that without Vitamin D, horses have difficulty ab-

sorbing calcium. If calcium cannot be absorbed through the digestive process, the body might begin to withdraw cal-cium from bones. “Most processed horse feeds and hay don’t have adequate amounts of Vitamin D,” Hausman said.

The health impacts on horses with Vitamin D deficiency can be many. Re-searchers in equine health believe that Vitamin D deficiencies in horses con-tribute to such problems as lameness, swollen joints, weak bones and teeth, and a number of cancers, including melanoma. Hausman notes the fol-lowing other potential health implica-tions for Vitamin D-deficient horses: - Decreased immune system function - Tying up disease - rhabdomyolysis - Poor muscle recovery time - Poor reaction to stress - A potential to develop laminitis Research on the health benefits of Vi-tamin D supplementation indicates that Vitamin D, because it strengthens the immune system, might actually better protect people against illnesses such as influenza. Hausman is the founder of Total Nutraceutical Solutions, a lead-ing international biotech nutritional supplement company that produces medicinal mushroom-based supple-ments for horses and people. In a few weeks, TNS is releasing a new human mushroom-based nutritional supple-ment that will provide, in a single cap-sule, as much Vitamin D as 10 glasses of Vitamin D-fortified milk. “Just in time for the flu season,” Hausman said. Hausman is such a believer in the health benefits of Vitamin D for horses and humans that he worked with re-searchers at Pennsylvania State Uni-versity to develop a technique to en-hance Vitamin D levels in mushrooms. “Food scientists at Penn State devel-oped a process that naturally increases Vitamin D levels in the mushrooms we

use in our nutritional products,” Hausman said. “Mushrooms produce D2 naturally. Our mushrooms may start at 240 IUs of D2 per 100 grams of mushroom powder, but after one minute of our patented UV light technology the amounts increase in one minute or less to over 400,000 IUs.” Hausman said there are different re-ceptors for D2 and D3 in the various tissues and organs of both horses and humans. People and horses need both forms. They should get the most they can of D3 from sunlight and UV light, but that doesn’t eliminate their need for Vi-tamin D2 supplementation. While D3 is what the skin of the body produces with the help of sunlight, D2 is also needed as an additional dietary supplement. “D2 is vegan,” Hausman said. “D3 is animal based and not very clean as a synthetic. It generally comes from sheep wool grease or lanolin. D2 is natural, completely vegetarian and is contained within a whole food. No additives, no extracts, and you get exactly what you personally eat or feed your horse.” Hausman challenges anyone who doubts the effects of Vitamin D defi-ciency in horses to take a test. “I would argue that nearly every horse has a Vitamin D deficiency because of their modern lifestyle. The way to prove it is to ‘kick the tires’ so to speak. Put your horse on Vitamin D supplements for 30-60 days and you will see a dif-ference. You’ll never go back to let-ting your horse have this deficiency.” Horse owners wanting to take up this challenge can order the Vitamin D-rich EquiSANO nutritional supplement on-line. To learn more about the impor-tance of Vitamin D for both horses and humans visit www.TotalNutraceutical.com.

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T’was the night before Christmas on our public land, not a Mustang was stirring, knowing what was at hand.

They huddled in fear hoping someone would care, in hopes that the advocates soon would be there

The foals hid in cover while Mom stood her ground and stallions ensured Abby was no where around.

With Salazar lurking and Glenn so close by, the bands must stay quiet and not blink an eye.

When out on the range there arose such a clatter, the Mustangs all knew, what was the matter.They ran to take cover, on wings they did fly, for surely they thought that they all would soon die.

The visions of millions made contractors grin, while ranchers and wranglers high-fived a big win.More horses removed by ignoring the law, hold on to your hats and stand back in awe.

The chopper did glisten on new fallen snow, sealing the fate of the horses below.When all of a sudden, the bands all stood still, and watched as the chopper came over the hill.

They stood in amazement, can it really be true, the advocates appeared right out of the blue.The horses retreated; not believing their eyes. for surely this is a BLM guise.

Then leading the charge, both lively and quick, were Downer and Holland and Fitch with a stick.More rapid than lightening, Calamity Cate was in tow, with Long close behind, not sure where to go

Now Ginger and Shelley and Laura times two, Oh Valerie and Barbara and Julie it’s you.Now Vicki and Jerry and right there is Ann, now Terry and Makendra with cameras in hand

Down the hill they descended toward the horses with care, and watched as the chopper, fled into the air.The advocates came with injunction in hand, the decree shouted out, “this is our public land”.

“Enough is enough” the judge did declare, the horses were saved by the breadth of a hair.Our work here’s not done, the advocates did cry, the choppers still flying, more herds could be spied.

Its back to D.C. with a permanent plan, to ensure all the horses can live on their land.So love was delivered to the horses with pride, but the warriors must leave so that no more would die.

They climbed up the hill and turned back to the band, who all now had gathered on what was their land.“We carry you with us”, R.T. did proclaim, “We go to the White House to show them your way.”

The horses all bowed with a sign of approval, as they all now knew that there was no removal.They neighed and they nickered to the spirit above.

Thanks for sending the people who gave us their love.

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