“The horse is not appreciated and never will be appreciated enough,—few humans, even them that works him, really know him, but then there's so much to know about him. I've wrote this book on only one horse and when I first started it I was afraid I'd run out of something to write, but I wasn't half thru when I begin to realize I had to do some squeezing to get the things in I wanted, and when I come to the last chapter was when I seen how if I spent my life writing on the horse alone and lived to be a hundred I'd only said maybe half of what I feel ought to be said.”
-Will James
In this delightful Newberry Award-winning book, follow the career of a horse in the cowboy-age of the American West as he grows and learns how to navigate a landscape filled with dangers, like mountain lions — and saddles!
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