Priscilla D Willis

Jory and the Buckskin Jumper
St Martin’s Press, New York, 1960, illus Laurence Bjorklund, 229 pp.

“After having seen an open jumper class at the horse show, Jory returns home to his horse Pete intent on
turning the buckskin cow pony into an Olympic quality jumper.!

The Race Between the Flags

Longmans, Green & Co, New York, 1955, illus Carl Kidwell.  177 pp.

“Alfred takes his chestnut hunter The Saint to a Georgia track hoping to win some steeplechase races, but
he finds out that he can’t get a jockey license until he’s sixteen, and so someone else will have to ride
The Saint.”

Alfred and the Saint
Longmans, Green & Co, New York, 1952, illus Carl Kidwell, 179 pp.

Alfred, who is mute, loves horses.  His special favourite is a hunter, The Saint, but the horse suffers a heart attack,
and is supposed to be put down.  Alfred, his father, and daughter of the horse’s owner, plot to save the horse.  When
he is better, the horse makes possible an operation to restore Alfred’s voice.

Priscilla D Willis, who also wrote as Mary Scott Adams, wrote three horse books. The first two books are about Alfred and his horse The Saint:  the third, as far as I know, is about different characters.

Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photographs.

Finding the books:  all of the books are reasonably easy to find in the US though are generally ex-library.  The books weren’t published in the UK.

Sources and Links:

Terri A. Wear:  Horse Stories - An Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987

Bibliography - horse books only