Mustang : wild spirit of the West / by Marguerite Henry ; illustrated by Robert Lougheed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Marguerite, 1902-1997.

Contributor:

Lougheed, Robert, illustrator.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnston, Annie Bronn--Juvenile fiction.

Johnston, Annie Bronn.

Johnston, Annie Bronn--Fiction.

Wild horses--Juvenile fiction.

Wild horses.

Mustang--Juvenile literature.

Mustang.

Mustang--Fiction.

Horses--Fiction.

Wildlife conservation--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

222 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Collins, [1968]

Summary:

The author tells, from the point of view of Annie Johnston, the story of this Nevada woman and her fight to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.

Contents:

Saved by a Mustang

Pa's Pardner

Every Bad Has a Good

Trapped!

"To Lazy Heart Ranch"

It Takes a Smart Mustang ...

Operation Rescue

Our Small Happy World

More Dead than Alive

Mice and Mustangs

The Scales Tip Even

The New Challenge

The Mustang Bill

Failure at Fernley

"Wild Horse Annie"

Stockings Hung by the Fire

At Black Rock Desert

Found: A Champion

The Power of Children

A Growing Storm

No Compromise!

A Call from Washington

In the Witness Seat

"We the People ..."

Roaming Free.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

30278299