More Houlihans and Horse Sense

<p>In this gathering of columns and articles Vernon Schmid touches provokes gouges tickles and challenges his readers. A United Methodist pastor and author of <I>Watie's Wolves</I> (iUniverse 2007) he has been a horse trainer ranch hand wrangler Rocky Mountain trail guide radio announcer country rock-a-billy folksinger and educator. His first novel <I>Seven Days of the Dog</I> was a Heekin Group Fiction Finalist and his collection of poetry <I>Hog Killers and Other Poems</I> was a Northwoods Poetry Prize winner. A member of the Western Writers of America his popular magazine column Horse Sense appears monthly in the <I>National Foundation Quarter Horse Journal</I> with readers in the all 50 states and 24 foreign countries.</p>