Founder and President
Institute of Range and the American Mustang
Dayton Hyde is a rancher, photographer,
essayist and author of 17 books, including “Sandy”,
Don Coyote”, and “Yamsi”. Dayton has been
called a rancher’s rancher and a naturalist’s
naturalist. He is a man whose wonderful observations
bring home the powerful fact that a human being is responsible
to the land and is not its master. All his life his
curiosity has compelled him to learn all he could about every
creature inhabiting the land he nurtures. As a result, he has
become an exceptional self-trained naturalist whose experiences
enrich us all. Yamsi, a
6,000 acre working cattle ranch in Oregon’s Klamath
Basin, is the setting for Dayton’s lively meditation on
what it means to be a rancher in the West in the late twentieth
century. Hard work and hardships at Yamsi coexist with
dedication to principles of conservation and sound ecology.
His exuberant, hard-fisted, often humorous portrait of a
rancher’s life is told the way it ought to be told.
He now runs The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, an 11,000-acre ranch in Western South Dakota
where he protects wild horses.
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1980’s Dick Cavett
1980’s Sunday Today
1980’s Good Morning America
1986 National Wildlife Federation:
Conserving America; Champions of Wildlife
1990 20/20 IRAM: Preserving A National
Treasure
1991 People Magazine 20th Anniversary
Amazing Americans
1996 ABC’s New Passages
1996 Discovery Channel: Wild Things with
Margaux Hemmingway
1997 Newton’s Apple
1999 PBS Wild Horses: An American Romance
2001 Johnnie Walker: Personal
Journey’s Discovery
2001 National Geographic Today
2003 Saving Endangered Species
2005 Outdoor Channel, COWBOYS!
LITERARY and CONSERVATION AWARDS
1989 Honor Award from Whooping Crane
Conservation Association
Oregon Governor’s
Conservationist of the Year
Issac Walton League of Golden
Beaver Award
Environmentalist of the Year: From
National Cattlemen’s Association Region 7
Dutton Literary Award
Distinguished Northwest Writer of
the Year: Willamette Writers
Conservation Award: International
Wild Waterfowl Association, Inc.
Northwest Booksellers Award
American Library Association Ten
Best Books of the Decade “Don Coyote”
1989 First Hero of the Earth, Eddie Bauer
Inc.
1994 A.S.C.P.A. Founder’s Award
1999 Oregon State University, College of
Agricultural Science Diamond Pioneer Agricultural Achievement
Award
2001 Highlights for Children, Author of
the Month and Author of the Year, July Issue “Medicine
Hattie”.
2002 International Reading Association,
Paul Witty Award for “Medicine Hattie”.
2002 Cate School Outstanding Alumni of
the Year
2002 American Association of Equine
Practitioners, “Lavin Cup Award” Equine Welfare
PUBLISHED BOOKS
“Sandy”, Dial Press 1968, reprinted 2000 by Oregon State
University Press (soft cover)
“The Brand of a Boy”, WPBCO
Press 1969
“Yamsi”, Dial Press 1971, reprinted 1996 by Oregon State
University Press (soft cover)
“Last Free Man”, Dial Press 1971
“Cranes in My Corral”, Dial Press 1972
“Strange Companions”, Dutton 1973
“Raising Waterfowl in
Captivity”, Dutton 1975
“Island of the Loons”, Macmillan 1983, reprinted 2002 Boyds Mills
Press
“Thunder Down the Track”, Macmillan 1984
“Wilderness Ranch”, Macmillan 1985
“One Summer in Montana”, Macmillan 1985
“The Major, The Poacher, and the
Wonderful One Trout River”,
Macmillan 1986, reprinted in 1986 Boyds Mills Press
“Don Coyote”, Arbor House 1986. On the American Library
Association List Best Books of the Decade 1987
“The Bells of Lake Superior”, Boyds Mills Press 1995
“Life in the Saddle”, essay Tehabi Books 1995
“Thunder of the Mustangs”, essay Tehabi Books, Sierra Club Books,
1997
“Mr. Beans”, Boyds Mills Press 2000
“Don Coyote” Reprinted Johnson
Books 2004
“Pastures of Beyond, an Old Cowboy
Looks Back at the Old West”,
Arcade Publishing 2005