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Available
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Publication
Scholastic (1970), Edition: Fourth Printing
Description
Relates the adventures of a blind colt as he roams with a band of mustangs and is eventually adopted and trained as a saddle horse by ten-year-old Whitey.
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LibraryThing member AprilBrown
What ages would I recommend it too? Five and up.
Length? A couple of hours.
Characters? Memorable, several characters.
Setting? Real world, southwest US pre-1900.
Written approximately? 1940.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent
Short storyline: A colt is born bind, and a pre-teen rancher wants to keep him alive, and not kill him out of mercy.
Notes for the reader: My book was so old, the pages crumbled.
Spoiler alert: Reading the end, you get the feeling that the old man used his horse trader senses to encourage the pre-teen to work really hard to save the colt. He likely knew all along everything the boy did. A heart warming story.
Length? A couple of hours.
Characters? Memorable, several characters.
Setting? Real world, southwest US pre-1900.
Written approximately? 1940.
Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? Ready to read more.
Any issues the author (or a more recent
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publisher) should cover? No.Short storyline: A colt is born bind, and a pre-teen rancher wants to keep him alive, and not kill him out of mercy.
Notes for the reader: My book was so old, the pages crumbled.
Spoiler alert: Reading the end, you get the feeling that the old man used his horse trader senses to encourage the pre-teen to work really hard to save the colt. He likely knew all along everything the boy did. A heart warming story.
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Original publication date
1941