Ginger Kathrens continues the saga of the wild horses of the Arrowheads in Cloud’s Legacy, a companion volume to PBS’s NATURE program. An award-winning wildlife documentary filmmaker, Kathryns is passionate about the plight of wild horses in North America, and it is with great joy that she watches the cast of Cloud’s Legacy run and interact freely on America’s wide open spaces. Her great story-telling abilities are beautifully enhanced by the exciting color photography that adorns each chapter of this handsome volume. The cast of characters in this saga has expanded beyond the first Cloud documentary to include over thirty different horses (all of which are listed in the appendix of the book). The story is told in 22 engaging chapters that follow Cloud and his growing family through their real-life adventures in the Rocky Mountains. Kathrens’s documentaries about Cloud, his cohorts, and family won the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, Chicago International Television Competition, U.S. International Film and Video Festival, and the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival. Ginger Kathrens is the consummate storyteller, advocate, and historian for the wild horses of the Pryor Mountains in Montana. In this beautifully written book filled with photographs of the wild horses and the equally wild and rugged landscape, she brings the lives, families, and struggles of the wild horses to the reader so that they can understand and be compelled to care about them. ~Carol J. Walker, author of Wild Hoofbeats: America's Vanishing Wild Horses Written and photographed by Ginger Kathrens, acclaimed cinematographer and producer of the NATURE documentary of the same title, Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns is sure to be a winner with anyone who is lured by the majesty and spirit of the wild horse. Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns is the second of three books and documentaries about Cloud. Shop for Cloud DVDs and other gifts through The Cloud Foundation, Ginger Kathrens' 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to the preservation of wild horses and burros living in freedom on their legally designated home ranges in the West (thecloudfoundation.org). O n the rugged, windswept slopes of the Arrowhead Mountains, the saga of Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies continues. Emmy award–winning filmmaker Ginger Kathrens picks up Cloud's story as he embarks on his life as a band stallion. Through Ginger's stunning photographs and captivating words, we continue on a journey that follows Cloud and the other wild horses of the Arrowheads through harsh winters and glorious springs. Ginger gives us a rare glimpse into their private world as we see firsthand how wild horses form their society, organizing into family bands. As a band stallion, Cloud fights to protect his family from predators, violent storms, and bachelors eager to win a mare from his band. But when a government roundup captures Cloud and his family, will they remain together? Will Cloud be able to raise his foal, or will he lose all that he fought for? Based on the NATURE documentary of the same title, Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns is sure to be a hit with anyone who has been following Cloud's story. And for new readers who are meeting Cloud for the first time, be prepared to fall in love with the majesty of the Arrowheads and the wild horses who live there. Ginger Kathrens is an Emmy-winning TV documentary producer and president of Taurus Productions, a corporation she founded in the 1970s. She has produced documentaries for the Discovery Channel and NATURE and has contributed to productions for National Geographic, the BBC, and PBS. Her documentary filmmaking trips have taken her to Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and South America, and all over the United States. Ginger worked on over twenty segments of the PBS half-hour series Wild America from 1987 to 1996, including the two-part program Year of the Mustang, which introduced her to the Arrowhead Mountains and Raven’s band in early 1994. Since that time, Ginger has spent thousands of hours observing wild horses not only on Cloud’s home range but all over the western United States as well as on Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia. She is a founder of the Wild Horse and Burro Freedom Alliance dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on public lands. Ginger lives in Colorado Springs with her Irish Terrier obedience dog, Ty. She also owns a ranch at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southern Colorado, which her Spanish mustangs, Flint and Sky, and her Arrowhead mustang, Trace, share with the abundant wildlife of the Rockies.