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03285aam a2200565 i 4500 001 20802A0C858811EC86BA3DEA51ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220204010015 008 210803s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2021942941 020 $a 1638081034 020 $a 9781638081036 035 $a (OCoLC)1262640873 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Branigan, Cynthia A.,. 245 14 $a The last diving horse in America $h [large print] : $b rescuing Gamal and other animals -- lessons in living and loving [Large print] (LP) / $c Cynthia A. Branigan. 250 $a Center Point Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Thorndike, Maine : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2021. 300 $a 416 pages (large print) : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Regular print version previously published by: Pantheon Books. 500 $a This book was purchased with funds donated by the Glenwood Lions Club. 520 $a "It was the signature attraction of Atlantic City's Steel Pier from the 1930s to the 1970s, the golden age of "America's Favorite Playground"--Doc Carver's High Diving Horses. Four times a day, seven days a week, a trained horse wearing only a harness ran up a ramp; a diving girl jumped on its back, and both sailed forty feet through the air, plunging into a ten foot deep tank of water. Decades later, after cries of animal abuse, and changing times, the act was finally shuttered and the very Last Atlantic City Steel Pier Diving Horse was on the auction block, with the author on a rescue mission. And $2,600 later, Gamal, gleaming coated, commanding, was hers: she who knew almost nothing about horses. Cynthia Branigan tells the story of how horse and new owner, come to know and educate and trust one another; teaching each other important lessons of living and loving. Branigan writes of the history of diving horses and how rescuing and caring for Gamal led her to save other animals, at first as company for Gamal--burros, and others, and then finally, saving a 10 year-old retired Greyhound, nearly broken in spirit, who, with Gamal, came back to his happy self, and opened up for the author a new and purposeful world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20211117. 648 7 $a 1900-1999. 650 7 $a Human-animal relationships. 650 $a Seaside resorts $z Atlantic City $z Atlantic City $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Thoroughbred horse. 650 7 $a Seaside resorts. 650 7 $a Large type books. 650 7 $a Horse adoption. 650 $a Human-animal relationships. 650 7 $a Animal rescue. 650 $a Horse adoption. 650 $a Thoroughbred horse $z New Jersey $v Biography. 650 7 $a Animal rescue. 651 7 $a New Jersey $z Atlantic City. 651 7 $a New Jersey. 655 7 $a History. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 8 945 $a lpt 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010030228.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20230704010512.0 952 $l TRPE062 $d 20221230010458.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221122011242.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20220806012530.0 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20220607013915.0 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20220331010109.0 952 $l XHPD657 $d 20220204010523.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20802A0C858811EC86BA3DEA51ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search