Genevieve Torrey Eames

A Horse to Remember

Messner, New York, 1947, illus Paul Brown, 146 pp. (left)
Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1949, 145 pp.  Illus Paul Brown (right)

Jarvis prefers to watch the grooms caring for and training the horses, rather than ride them
himself.  He especiallyloves Joker, an ugly horse neglected by everyone except him.  Joker
begins to change colour and turns palomino, at which point Jarvis’ father wants to sell the
horse as he cannot keep a useless horse on the ranch.  Jarvis now has to learn to ride, and
earn the right to keep Joker.  

A review of A Horse to Remember.

Flying Roundup

Messner, New York, 1957, illus Lorence F Bjorklund, 190 pp.

Ghost Town Cowboy

Messner, New York, 1951, illus Paul Brown, 176 pp.

“To Steve the west of ranches and rodeos, of cowboys and round-ups, is much more exciting than the deserted
mining town where he helps Gopher Pete prospect for gold. From his secret look-out up in the mountain, he watches
thousands of cattle with the Bar M brand, the dashing cowboys and their fine horses and wishes he could be a
rancher instead of a miner.  His only consolation is his pet calf Whitey. When Gopher Pete says it is time to butcher
Whitey, Steve takes his calf and runs away to the Bar M where Bob Maynard says he can stay and help his son
Ted with the chores. Steve finds ranching more exciting than he had ever dreamed .... Then he overhears a
conversation that means Gopher Pete is in danger, and Steve goes back to help him. “

The Good Luck Colt

Messner, New York, 1953, illus Paul Brown, 191 pp.

Martin and his father dream of winning the Hambletonian with one of their Standardbred horses.  Martin’s colt,
Good Luck, is a promising trotter, but he will not be able to race unless Martin can trace the colt’s dam’s papers.
 

A review of The Good Luck Colt.

Genevieve Torrey Eames was born in California, and lived in the United States, Paris and London.  In the introduction to one of her earliest books, A Horse to Remember, she said:  “All my life has been mixed up, somehow, with dogs and horses.  So, naturally when I sat down to write a story , I wrote about what I know best - dogs and horses!”  A Horse to Remember won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation for Children's Literature.

Finding the Books:  Flying Roundup, Pat Rides the Trail, A Horse to Remember, Good Luck Colt and Ghost Town Cowboy  are all reasonably easy to find, though copies are generally ex-library.  Handy of the Triple S (a dog story) is expensive, and harder to find. A Horse to Remember was published in the UK, and is reasonably easy to find here, though much less so with its dustjacket.

Sources and Links:

Reviews and pictures of A Horse to Remember, The Good Luck Colt and Pat Rides the Trail

Bibliography - horse books only

Pat Rides the Trail

Messner, New York, 1946, illus Dan Noonan, 146 pp.

Pat Carey buys the mare West Wind at auction, and enters her in the Hundred Mile Trail Ride.

A review of Pat Rides the Trail.

Also:

Handy of the Triple S

Messner, New York, 1949, illus Paul Brown, 164 pp.

Horses, Horses, Horses: Phyllis Fenner

A short story: Jarvis Discovers Gold