Sid Gustafson
Novelist and Veterinarian
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Unpublished works available for publication considerationSWIFT DAM is a novella about the 1964 tradgedy of Swift Dam, which gave way killing 38 people along Birch Creek, mostly Blackfeet Indians UNVANQUISHED is period literature. A white child shows up on the streets of Browning, MT in 1904, alone but for a dog at his feet. MONTANA PASTORAL, stories, short story collection, classic Montana lit LAMENESS IN HORSES, a novel of New York thoroughbred racing. HORSES THEY RODE Sid Gustafson Description HORSES THEY RODE is a dramatic story of love, family, and changing cultures. It takes place along the rugged Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, where ranchers and Native Americans uneasily share the vast landscape with each other, wild animals, and fast horses. Bruised from a divorce, Wendel Ingraham abandons his hardscrabble life as a racehorse trainer and returns to the mountain foothill ranch where he was raised. There he confronts his past and tries to build a future with his young daughter. The novel lyrically weaves his journey through women, children, horses, and Indian spirituality, culminating in a dramatic horse race. Gustafson’s beautifully crafted writing limns the intense and complex interactions between men and women, fathers and daughters, Native Americans and whites, and animals and nature. His storytelling and language is full of rhythm and surprise.  |
ServicesVeterinary Services
Dr Gustafson is licensed to practice in New York, Washington, and Montana, and offers consultations throughout the United States and worldwide. He specializes in designing health plans and training facilities in accord with the horse's nature and preferences to facilitate peak mental and physical health and performance. He is licensed by the State of New York Racing and Wagering Board as a Thoroughbred Veterinarian to treat and manage racehorse health at Saratoga, Belmont, and Aqueduct. Dr Gustafson focuses on the development of natural circumstances for confined performance horses--enrichment strategies that accommodate the horse's nature and inherent preferences result in enhanced, consistent, optimum performance. Natural approaches prevent the development of lamenesses, behavioral problems, and illness. Additional services include non-surgical lameness resolution strategies, and enrichment strategies to soothe and heal horses exposed to excessive confinement, travel, and competition. swgustafson@yahoo.com  Nina Gustafson takes flight HORSES THEY RODE
“This is a fascinating novel.” Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall and Dalva When I started reading this fine novel, I was at first taken aback, then disturbed. After fifty pages, I realized -- or more accurately, admitted -- why: I was humbled. Sid Gustafson's understanding of Montana -- real cowboys and Indians, and the love-hate dependency that ties them, the land, and its animals together -- is bone deep, blood true, and beautifully described. Neil McMahon, author of Twice Dying, Blood Double and the forthcoming Lone Creek, HarperCollins / April 2007 -- set in and around Helena, Montana. Few novelists have a sense of place, for Americans are a rootless people. Sid’s is acute, and he tells a great story of his land and the people on it, and in it… Peter Bowen, author of Coyote Wind and the Gabriel Du Pré Montana Mysteries “Sid Gustafson writes like the language is a race horse and he is the rider, ready to go as far and fast as they both can go. He is in love with words, especially as they attach to the weather, terrain and inhabitants of Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, one of the most unforgiving and beautiful regions on the planet. He knows what he’s talking about. Listen to him.” Deidre McNamer, author of Rima in the Weeds and My Russian PRISONERS OF FLIGHT
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