Search Results: wild horse of the rio grande by franklin george cory

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Beige hardcover cloth binding with dark brown decoration and title is clean square and tight. Dustjacket shows minimal shelfwear and displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. Gift note on half-title page only mark. Illustrated endpapers. Interior clean, bright and tight. 181 pages with great color and b/w illustrations throughout. Twelve original horse stories by a cowboy who lived every one of them. Stories have info on how to break, brand, and train horses for work on the range. The heroes are the horse: the colt Baden who fought Diablo the herd leader; Red Cloud, who got even with the thief who branded him; Major who escaped from a mining camp and led his mule back all the way back to Colorado; and many others.. Illus. by Moyers, William. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good.