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The Golden Stallion to the Rescue
Winter descended swiftly on the Bar L, in the shape of a howling blizzard, and Charlie Carter's big stallion, Golden Boy, had a new opportunity to prove he was "all horse". He met the challenge of the storm defiantly, sending his wild scraam downwind when the blast roared loudest.
Ranch work in deep snow is rugged business. But it is grim indeed when every young steer, every colt that is lost, meant less chance to pay off the bank loan which has financed the ranch ...
Ranch work in deep snow is rugged business. But it is grim indeed when every young steer, every colt that is lost, meant less chance to pay off the bank loan which has financed the ranch ...
- GenresWesterns
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1954
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Rutherford G. Montgomery
93 books19 followersRutherford George Montgomery
Also published as Everitt Proctor, Al Avery, Art Elder, A.A. Avery and E.P. Marshall.
Montgomery was born in Straubville, Sargent County, North Dakota, "a true ghost town" as of 2005. to George Y. and Matilda Proctor Montgomery. He studied at Colorado Agricultural College, Western State College of Colorado, and University of Nebraska; taught elementary school in Hot Springs, Wyoming; and from 1917 to 1919 served in the United States Air Corps. During the 1920s, he worked as a teacher and principal at junior and senior high schools in Montrose County, Colorado.
Montgomery married Eunice Opal Kirks in 1930; they had three children. He served Gunnison County, Colorado, as a judge from 1931 to 1936 and as county commissioner from 1932 to 1938, then became a freelance writer.
While still at school, Montgomery began writing stories about the wild animals that lived around his family's farm. He went on to write books about aviation and the people, landscapes and animals of the American West, particularly horses. In all, he wrote more than 100 books.
From 1941 to 1946, Montgomery was a writer for Dick Tracy. He worked as a creative writing teacher 1955–57 and as a scriptwriter for Walt Disney Studios 1958–1962.
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Also published as Everitt Proctor, Al Avery, Art Elder, A.A. Avery and E.P. Marshall.
Montgomery was born in Straubville, Sargent County, North Dakota, "a true ghost town" as of 2005. to George Y. and Matilda Proctor Montgomery. He studied at Colorado Agricultural College, Western State College of Colorado, and University of Nebraska; taught elementary school in Hot Springs, Wyoming; and from 1917 to 1919 served in the United States Air Corps. During the 1920s, he worked as a teacher and principal at junior and senior high schools in Montrose County, Colorado.
Montgomery married Eunice Opal Kirks in 1930; they had three children. He served Gunnison County, Colorado, as a judge from 1931 to 1936 and as county commissioner from 1932 to 1938, then became a freelance writer.
While still at school, Montgomery began writing stories about the wild animals that lived around his family's farm. He went on to write books about aviation and the people, landscapes and animals of the American West, particularly horses. In all, he wrote more than 100 books.
From 1941 to 1946, Montgomery was a writer for Dick Tracy. He worked as a creative writing teacher 1955–57 and as a scriptwriter for Walt Disney Studios 1958–1962.
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July 16, 2024
This is a review of the 1954 Grosset and Dunlap Famous Horse Stories hardback edition. There are two plots in this book, the third in the series:
* A: Things go from bad to worse at the ranch where Golden Boy, the Golden Stallion, lives. His owner's Dad made a major mistake, and then the ranch gets hit by a hard winter. I understand now why ranching is currently on the way out and feed lots are never going away. Almost all of the surviving horses on the ranch have to be sold -- including Golden Boy.
*B: An oil company moves in to the ranch next door because of the meddling of a dude staying at Golden Boy's ranch, because Mom makes the mistake of deciding to take in dudes for the summer. They only get one dude. Great idea, Mom!
This book is very much like a Stephen Holt/Harlan Thompson book. In fact, the intertwining plots are pretty close. Ranch is just about to be lost, relatives are helpless, so it's up to the teenaged boy and his special horse to save the day. However, Holt/Thompson never came up with such an implausible ending to his books as the one that occurs here.
I'd rant on more about the stupid ending, but I don't want to give it away.
Montgomery does point out the idiocy of some cruel methods of horse training here, which was surprising for a cowboy-based book from the 1950s. In the first book of the series, Golden Boy was tied, thrown and I think blindfolded in order to break him to saddle.
* A: Things go from bad to worse at the ranch where Golden Boy, the Golden Stallion, lives. His owner's Dad made a major mistake, and then the ranch gets hit by a hard winter. I understand now why ranching is currently on the way out and feed lots are never going away. Almost all of the surviving horses on the ranch have to be sold -- including Golden Boy.
*B: An oil company moves in to the ranch next door because of the meddling of a dude staying at Golden Boy's ranch, because Mom makes the mistake of deciding to take in dudes for the summer. They only get one dude. Great idea, Mom!
This book is very much like a Stephen Holt/Harlan Thompson book. In fact, the intertwining plots are pretty close. Ranch is just about to be lost, relatives are helpless, so it's up to the teenaged boy and his special horse to save the day. However, Holt/Thompson never came up with such an implausible ending to his books as the one that occurs here.
I'd rant on more about the stupid ending, but I don't want to give it away.
Montgomery does point out the idiocy of some cruel methods of horse training here, which was surprising for a cowboy-based book from the 1950s. In the first book of the series, Golden Boy was tied, thrown and I think blindfolded in order to break him to saddle.
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