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Buck Brannaman at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.. Dan M. "Buck" Brannaman (born January 29, 1962) [1] is an American horse trainer and a leading clinician with a philosophy of handling horses based on classical concepts from the vaquero tradition; working with the horse's nature, using an understanding of how horses think and communicate to train the horse to accept humans and work ...
Buck is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Cindy Meehl. The film focuses on the life, career, and philosophy of the real-life "horse whisperer" Buck Brannaman . Synopsis
Meehl took one of her troubled horses to a Buck Brannaman clinic in Pennsylvania. As Meehl watched Brannaman lead the clinic, she thought "Everyone should know this. Everyone should know the way he teaches." [2] Ultimately, she worked up the courage to ask Brannaman if he would be interested in making a film about his methods.
They had a particularly strong influence on fellow horseman Ray Hunt and Hunt's disciple, Buck Brannaman, as well as Arabian horse breeder and trainer Sheila Varian. Many horse trainers and owners claim influence from the Dorrance brothers including Pat Parelli, famous for his video series of games to play through groundwork.
According to writer Nicholas Evans, [3] Tom Booker is modelled after horse whisperers Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and, in particular, their younger disciple Buck Brannaman. Evans has said, "Others have claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman.
Buck Angel (left, with The Post’s Rikki Schlott) lived as a lesbian woman for 30 years before transitioning to a male. “I really believe that Lia Thomas and all this ‘trans women are women ...
Buck Brannaman was the basis for the character Tom Booker, the central figure in Nicholas Evans' best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. Nevertheless, the method used in the breakthrough treatment of the traumatized horse is straight out of John Rarey's work. Will study of Brannaman's writings reveal an acknowledged debt?
Buck Brannaman (real name Dan M. Brannaman, born 1962), named by Nicholas Evans as the primary inspiration for his book The Horse Whisperer; Monty Roberts (real name Marvin Earl Roberts, born 1935, American horse trainer and subject of a BBC/PBS documentary The Real Horse Whisperer; Daniel "Horse-Whisperer" Sullivan (died 1810), an Irish horse ...