Catalog Search Results
21) Ned Kelly
Description
Sixteen-year-old Irish immigrant Ned Kelly is sentenced to three years in prison for stealing horse. After his release, he finds work tending to horses owned by Richard Cook, whose wife becomes interested in Ned. Fitzpatrick, is a police officer interested in Ned's sister Kate. When she refuses his advances, Fitzpatrick steals the family's animals. Not being able to go straight, Ned goes on the run and steals from a string of banks to support himself...
Author
Description
Movie summary :Based on the true story of Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbred and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, who was kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2 million ranson.
Book summary: Ask anyone in Great Britain or Ireland about famous racehorses and they’ll likely have only one name to tell you. Shergar. At his peak, Shergar was one of the most elegant, powerful, and successful racehorses in the history of...
24) Shergar
Description
Based on the true story of Shergar, Ireland's most decorated thoroughbred and perhaps the greatest race horse of all time, who was kidnapped by IRA terrorists and held for a $2 million ranson.
Author
Formats
Description
"Sheriff Jack Allen had a twin brother, known as Jim-twin Allen, also as the White Wolf. Some said Jim was the fabled Lone Wolf -- outlawed by his pack and condemned to travel alone because his kind feared and would not trust him. Others swore that he was the White Wolf of Indian lore, who brought good luck, and that none but the evil need fear him! That was the reputation of Jim-twin Allen. Branded as an outlaw, with a big price on his head, the...
Description
There were those who thought the rare and beautiful wild stallion was just a myth. But for Hannah Mills and C.J. Adams the myth would become as real as the wild mountain range the wraith stallion called home. Hannah and her father Frank arrive at Mustang Matty Steadman's Bear Mountain Ranch, a spread which runs parallel to the Utah Nevada border. Hannah has come west to photograph the famous wild horses found on Matty's ranch. C.J. is from the neighboring...
Author
Description
"For generations Arizona's Picture Rocks -- magnificent and virtually inaccessible cliffs -- sheltered the Jores from the long arm of the law. The Jores have recently come into the possession of Black Wing, one of the finest stallions ever bred in America. When three race-track fanatics -- a melancholy, saddle-born cowboy, the Reno Kid; the flashy gambler, Race Coulter; and the shrewd race horse breeder, Luke Chartres -- enter that stronghold determined...
Author
Formats
Description
Young Daniel Boone Trewick, caught with a young woman, flees Missouri believing he has killed the girl's father in a fight. He joins a freighting outfit on the Santa Fe Trail, and in Taos he meets Thomas L. "Pegleg" Smith and is invited to join an expedition to California to steal horses and mules. Meanwhile in California, Juan Medina, a young vaquero in trouble for consorting with the ranch owner's daughter, is framed and jailed. After the ladrones...
30) Dilly la mula
Author
Description
No importa lo viejo o lo lento que seas, aún puedes ser el héroe del día. A la mula Dilly le encanta su trabajo - tirar de la carreta que lleva a los niños a la escuela-. Pero se está haciendo vieja y es cada vez más lenta, así que un buen día, su amo la sustituye por un caballo. Cuando dos escurridizos ladrones le echan el ojo al nuevo caballo, Dilly tiene la oportunidad de arruinar su malvado plan y convertirse en una heroína. ¿Será el...
31) Cimarrón
Author
Description
"Cimarrón meant wild. Untamed. That's how Calvin Taylor, the young man they called 'Choctaw,' saw himself. As free of restraint as the raw new land he wandered, where the only law was lynch law. Someone who couldn't be broken to the plow. Choctaw's stamping ground was the Arizona Territory of 1873. He worked as a mustanger, catching and breaking wild horses; for the army scouting against Apaches; as a cowboy trailing horse thieves. Each adventure...
.png)