The Blind Colt
by Glen Rounds, Lydia Rosier
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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.Tags
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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 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.
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 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.
Adventures of a blind colt as he roams with a band of mustangs and is adopted and trained as a saddle horse by ten-year old Whitey.
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Author Information
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Rounds, who was born in 1906 in a sod house near Wall, South Dakota, and moved to Montana one year later in a covered wagon. He wrote dozens of tall tales and realistic books about rural America, especially North Carolina, where he lived, and Montana, where he was brought up. Rounds first book, Ol' Paul, the Mighty Logger, was published in 1936 by show more Holiday. He won the AAUW Award in 1983 for Wild Appaloosa. The AAUW Award was created in 1953 to honor North Carolinan children's authors.Rounds died in Pinehurst, NC, September 27, 2002, after a long illness. He was 96. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Vintage Scholastic (TX1044)
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- The Blind Colt
- Original publication date
- 1941
- People/Characters
- Whitey
- First words
- It was near sundown of an early spring afternoon when the brown mustang mare left the wild horse band where it grazed on the new spring grass, and climbed carefully to the top of a nearby hogback.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Yessir! I'll bring him right over!" Whitey said.
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ10.3 .R76 .B — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Reviews
- 4
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- (3.83)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 21
