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Laura Leigh, horse activist, checks on the well being of the horses in a horse management area of Antelope Valley, NV Thursday March 3, 2016. (photo by Randi Lynn Beach)

A recent article in the Las Vega Review Journal HERE

BY JOHN M. GLIONNA
SPECIAL TO THE REVIEW-JOURNAL
ANTELOPE VALLEY

Horse activist Laura Leigh drives a monster-sized truck, an imposing Ford F-250 4-by-4 with its chassis jacked up so high she often must tumble down from the driver’s seat, the vehicle’s battered white finish filthy and mud-caked from all of her bumpy, teeth-loosening, off-road escapades.

It’s her fourth pickup truck in seven years — the cost of a controversial 100,000-mile annual journey across six western states and a nomadic lifestyle that often means sleeping inside her truck cab or in cheap motels, guzzling reheated gas-station coffee and downing peanut-butter sandwiches behind the wheel. She’s always red-eyed, always on the road.

Leigh tracks the people who track and corral America’s wild mustangs.

She’s a tough-talking New Jersey native with long red hair, cowboy boots and a tattered denim Carhartt jacket, a woman who slides into a Sopranos-like accent when she talks about her blue-collar childhood riding and caring for horses, telling tales of the city girl who went to school smelling like horse manure, who quickly fell in love with the animals’ indomitable spirit.

In 2009, Leigh fled an abusive marriage in Washington state and moved to Nevada to become a high-desert loner. Four seasons a year, she documents the actions of conservative tight-lipped ranchers whose free-roaming cattle compete with mustangs for precious grass. And she challenges federal officials from the Bureau of Land Management, the government stewards of the public lands whose policy is often to remove the horses from the range.

READ THE REST HERE…. http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/water-environment/activist-chronicles-wild-horse-roundups-guard-against-mistreatment