Category: Fiction: Youth

Copyright/published Year: 2000 by Mountain Press

ISBN: 0-87842-413-X

Binding: Paper

"Just about the best horse story every written." -- Dorothy ì Canfield Fisher, American novelist

Smoky, the Cowhorse is the story of a horse--from his ì first hours on the prairie sod to his final years out to pasture. ì Smoky grows up wild and wise to the ways to the range, fighting ì wolves and braving stiff winds. Clint, a bronco-busting cowboy on ì the Rocking R Ranch, spots the spirited four-year-old and thinks ì it is the finest little horse he ever saw. After many adventurous ì years on the Rocking R, Smoky mysteriously disappears, only to ì turn up later as an outlaw bucking horse on the rodeo circuit. ì

The reader follows the story--from range to ranch to ì rodeo--through Smoky's eyes. We feel his terror of man, his ì struggle against the rope, his growing love for turning cows, and ì his anger when mistreated.

First published in 1926, Smoky, the Cowhorse is for anyone who ì loves horses the way Will James did. As James writes in the ì preface, "Smoky is just a horse, but all horse, and that I think ì is enough said."

260 pages, illustrated, paper binding

This book is new.