Chico and Dan

by Harold Keith, Scott Arbuckle (Illustrator)

When eleven-year-old Dan Deweese leaves home to work on his great-uncle's ranch in Nevada in 1915, he forms an attachment to a wild colt and uses that relationship to try to reclaim six steeldust mares which get stolen by a wild mustang

110 pages, Hardcover

First published January 28, 1998

About the author

Harold Keith lived his entire life in Oklahoma, a state that he greatly loved and which served as the setting for many of his books.
Perhaps his best known story, the historical novel "Rifles for Watie", was first released in 1957. It went on to win the 1958 John Newbery Medal and the 1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
In 1998, Harold Keith died of congestive heart failure, in Norman, Oklahoma.