Smoky, the cowhorse
By: by Will James ; illustrated by the author
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Missoula, Montana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Horses -- Juvenile fiction; Horses -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
First sentence: It seemed like Mother Nature was sure agreeable that day when the little black colt came to the range world and tried to get a footing with his long wobblety legs on the brown prairie sod.
Description: The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age.
Table of contents: title: A Range Colt
pagenum: 1
label: I; title: Smoky Meets the Human
pagenum: 17
label: II; title: Where the Trails Fork
pagenum: 31
label: III; title: The End of a Rope
pagenum: 48
label: IV; title: The Bronc Twister Steps Up
pagenum: 64
label: V; title: "The Squeak of Leather"
pagenum: 81
label: VI; title: Smoky Shows His Feelings
pagenum: 100
label: VII; title: Smoky Starts Out
pagenum: 114
label: VIII; title: Fights for Rights
pagenum: 131
label: IX; title: "Amongst the Missing"
pagenum: 152
label: X; title: "The Feel of a Strange Hand"
pagenum: 170
label: XI; title: "When the Good Leaves"
pagenum: 191
label: XII; title: "A Many-Men Horse"
pagenum: 212
label: XIII; title: "Dark Clouds, Then Tall Grass"
pagenum: 227
label: XIV