EDWARD D. (Tex) GLADDING, Postmaster, Virginia City, Nevada
GORDON B. HARRIS, Reno, Nevada
MRS. CHARLES C. JOHNSTON (“Wild Horse Annie”), Reno, Nevada
ROBERT E. LOUGHEED, Newtown, Connecticut
T. W. MACAULAY, Cowboy and engineer, Reno, Nevada
DAVID C. MCCLURE, North Hollywood, California
WILLIAM L. MARKS, The Crystal, Virginia City, Nevada
SISTER MARY BRIDGET, O. S. M., Ladysmith, Wisconsin
GEORGE N. SAUM, Wayne, Illinois
GEORGE H. SEWARD, Assistant to Congressman Baring
JAMES SLATTERY, State Senator, Wadsworth, Nevada
AL TRIVELPIECE, Nevada City, California
LURA TULARSKI, Reno, Nevada
MRS. JOHN M. WOODARD, Sedona, Arizona
JAMES C. WRIGHT, U.S. Congressman from Texas
Other books by Marguerite Henry
Misty of Chincoteague
King of the Wind
Sea Star, Orphan of Chincoteague
Born to Trot
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Black Gold
Stormy, Misty’s Foal
The quotation on page 81 is from Cowboys and Indians, by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, © 1948 by Golden Press.
The quotation on page 86 is from Prayers from the Ark, by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, translated from the French by Rumer Godden. Copyright 1962 by Rumer Godden; published by Viking Press.
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First Aladdin Paperbacks edition, 1992
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Henry, Marguerite, 1902-
Mustang, wild spirit of the West / Marguerite Henry.—1st Aladdin Books ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A fictional retelling, from the point of view of Annie Bronn Johnston, of how this Nevada woman fought to protect the American wild horse, the mustang, from extinction because of professional killers who chased the horses for use in dog food.
1. Johnston, Annie Bronn—Juvenile fiction. [1. Mustang—Fiction. 2. Horses—Fiction. 3. Johnston, Annie Bronn—Fiction. 4. Wildlife conservation—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H394Ms 1992
[Fic]—dc20 91-25187
ISBN 978-0-689-71601-0
eISBN-13: 978-1-4424-8805-2
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