TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chapman,Melissa A.Priblo
TI  - Distant skies: an American journey on horseback 
SN  - 9781570769603
PY  - 2020///
CY  - North Pomfret, Vermont
PB  - Trafalgar Square Books
KW  - Chapman, Melissa A. Priblo
KW  - Horsemen and horsewomen
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Endurance riding (Horsemanship)
KW  - Overland journeys to the Pacific
KW  - Human-animal relationships
N2  - "Melissa Chapman was 23 years old and part of a happy, healthy, loving family. She had a decent job, a boyfriend she cared about, and friends she enjoyed. Yet on the first of May in 1982, she said good-bye to all of it. Carrying a puppy named Gypsy, she climbed aboard a horse and rode away from everything, heading west. With no cell phone, no GPS, no support team or truck following with supplies, Chapman quickly learned that the reality of a cross-country horseback journey was quite different from the fantasy. Her solo adventure would immediately test her mental, physical, and emotional resources as she and her four-legged companions were forced to adapt to the dangers and loneliness of a trek that would span over 2600 miles, beginning in New York State and reaching its end on the other side of the country, in California"--
ER  -