Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West

by Marguerite Henry
Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West
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131 ratings, 3.98 average rating, 5 reviews (more data...)
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published
April 30th 1992 by Aladdin

binding
Paperback, 224 pages

isbn
068971601X   (isbn13: 9780689716010)

description
Horses were in Annie Bronn's blood. For as long as she could remember, she had been fascinated by the spirited wild mustangs that roamed free through...more






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Dixie Diamond
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11/09/07

bookshelves: 1950s, biography, history, horses, juvenile, western, women
Read in January, 1986
I've always thought this was sort of an under-appreciated work of Henry's. I'm not sure if it was simply overshadowed by the popularity of the better-known Misty books, because it is a more distressing story than most of her others, or for some other reason. Possibly I was biased because it was Western and I grew up in Colorado and Texas and could better identify with it than with the Chincoteague books (if you can find one of the older hardbacks with color illustrations, get it; they'r...more
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Brenna
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05/14/08

bookshelves: horse-books
Read in January, 2005
recommended to Brenna by: Sister
recommends it for: All horse fans
Another great story from Marguerite Henry's collection, this one I enjoyed reading and it was a very good story, all horse and mustang fans should read it.
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Emily
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09/16/08

bookshelves: childhood-favs
This is based on a true story and I remember how horrified I was to find out that horses are sometimes slaughtered for dog food. :-( Good book though.
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Stasha
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07/30/07

bookshelves: childrens, horses
I used to start the school year reading this and King of the Wind.
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bookshelves: children
My copy is from 1981.
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