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Unbranded

Creation Saturday: Unbranded the movie

A riding dream concluded

This is a review of Unbranded a movie that came out in 2015. It is 1 hr and 45 min. long. The movie is a documentary about 4 young men who rode from the USA side of the Mexican border North to the USA side of the Canada border.

https://youtu.be/hVgYO2ROUes

I've only been on three 50 mile over night trail rides. Looking back, that is enough to realize what this ride must have been like. When you view the vistas they rode through, it becomes an amazing adventure with horses as companions.

There is a burro that enters the ride about half way through. I thought of Brighty a little burro that was used for taking supplies to the river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I was sure when I first read Brighty of the Grand Canyon, that I was still in high school. I found a copy of the book on the internet. It listed the publisher as Aladdin and the author as Marguerite Henry. It also had a publishing date of 2015. So, I'm thinking it was republished at some time. Anyway, at one time only the trained burros were aloud to traverse the trail to the bottom of the Canyon but these young men took their horses through the trail to the other side? That must be a feat of its own.

Then there is the fact that the movie is an indepth work about the wild mustang management in the USA. The horses used in the movie were Mustangs. The ride took longer than they expected. Even with IPods for communication, maps, and GPS they sometimes had to alter the route. Accurate ideas are portrayed throughout the movie about the abilities used to complete the ride.

I especially liked that the movie is a picture about the horses and their companionship to the riders. It definitely shows the interaction between horse and rider that is sometimes left out in other types of movies.

Happy Trails!

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