"Coming soon as a major motion picture. Roughly, violently, in the dark and vacant Nevada night, cattle rancher Henry McBride has everything that means anything torn from him. Guilt-ridden, cast aside by his own heart, Henry staggers from town to town, job to job, and bar to bar, seeking only some way to momentarily silence the voices inside his head, to soothe the slow burn of his anguish. When he finds himself begging for work on a guest ranch,...

The popular and highly respected horse trainer Mark Rashid brings together Western and Eastern philosophies to demonstrate a seamless new incarnation of horse training. After years of helping "difficult" horses, Mark Rashid understands how to build the foundation of a horses training and resolve any problems encountered along the way. He explains how he allows the traditionally firm or assertive approach of the old Western style to take some lessons...

A primer on developing a mutually beneficial bond with a horse discusses how to learn from horse and rider mistakes, the importance of establishing realistic boundaries, and the ways in which horses respond to real and perceived traumas.

Mark Rashid becomes the student when a nondescript horse named Buck steps into his life. Odd behavior from this hores forces Mark, a world-famour horse trainer known for working with horses in a non-confrontational manner to reevaluate everything he understands about horses. What he finds challenges him to become a better trainer and better person.

"Internationally acclaimed horse trainer Mark Rashid shares and analyzes the remarkable events, quiet moments, and humbling stumbling blocks that-looking back-he can identify as significant in his personal journey to finding "softness" with both horses and people. "Softness," via what many in the horse world today might refer to as "feel," begins, Rashid says, with one simple truth: "It's not about what we do that starts us on the path to softness,...