Logan Forster
Desert Storm
Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1955, illus by Frank Hubbard
Transworld Books, Scottie series, London, 1956
Ponce, an Apache, helps the mare Desert Storm to recover from a broken leg so that he can race her again.
Mountain Stallion
Dodd, Mead and Company 1958, New York, illus by Jessie Forster
Ponce manages to catch and tame a wild stallion, Victorio, but when he races the
horse, he is claimed by
someone else.
Tamarlane: Strange Son of Desert Storm
Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1959, illus by Gerald McCann
Desert Storm is about to have a foal, and Ponce has high expectations for it. However,
the colt is born with
a club foot, and even though Joto has predicted the colt will
be a success, Ponce can’t bring himself to
believe it.
Revenge
Dodd, Mead and Company 1960, New York, illus by Gerald McCann
Ponce manages to win the Triple Crown on Tamarlane (bit of a spoiler -
problems. Desert Storm’s filly has managed to wound several other
horses, so Ponce decides to take
her out to Arizona with him to try and heal them
both.
Logan Forster was a horseman, but also wrote of Native American culture. He wrote one series, with the main character an Apache teenage boy, Ponce, and one standalone book, about a white teenage runaway boy, called Run Fast, Run Far. All of the books feature racing in some form, though the track is only a small part of the setting.
Only Desert Storm was published in the UK, in the Transworld Scottie series in paperback. It is not impossible to find, but it doesn’t pop up that often. All of the other titles are hard to find, and expensive. If you can read German, some of them were translated and they are cheap and easy to find.
Many thanks to Susan Bourgeau and Lisa Catz for photographs and information.
Run Fast! Run Far!
Dodd, Mead and Company 1962, New York, illus by Gerald McCann
Also:
Proud Land, 1954, Corgi pb, 1961
Anger in the Wind, 1974
The Apache Series
Desert Storm
Mountain Stallion
Tamarlane
Revenge
Bibliography