Monday, December 09, 2024

On horseback journey from Oklahoma-Kansas line, 'America's Amputee' stops in East Texas

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'What more can you do than start moving and moving your feet?'

Jordan Green
Dec 4, 2024 Updated Dec 7, 2024

MINEOLA — Most horsepower along the highways these days is created in a steel engine block, where fuel and fire fuse and combust to let drivers race from one place to another.

But in his months-long trek along the highways and byways of Oklahoma and East Texas, Sean Herren has relied on the kind of horse power that needs alfalfa, sweet feed, a saddle and some tender, loving care. Since leaving his home in northern Oklahoma in October, he’s ridden his trusty steed, Odyssey, with the horse’s sister, Storm, carrying supplies at his side.

The two Tennessee Walker horses are fittingly named. An odyssey is a long, arduous journey. And while a storm could refer to the weather, it better represents any number of painful challenges a human must endure.

Herren knows what it’s like to be on a long journey somewhere, and he’s spent his life fighting an uncommon battle: the results of a childhood electrocution that left him with half an arm...

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