Jean Bailey

Cherokee Bill - Oklahoma Pacer

Abingdon Cokesbury Press, 1952, illus Pers Crowell, 190 pp.  HB.

The Cherokee Strip is to be opened up for homesteading.  David and his family need a faster horse to have
a chance of getting the land athey want, and strike lucky when a badly treated horse follows their wagon
into camp.

Jean Bailey (1904-1992) was born in Kansas.  She was a teacher and a librarian, and wrote several children’s book.  During the Second World War she served as a lieutenant in the Waves.  Cherokee Bill won the William Allen White Children’s Book Prize in 1955.  

Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph.

Finding the book:  The book is very easy to find.  It wasn’t published in the UK.

Sources and links:

The book as a William Allen White prizewinner.

Terri A. Wear:  Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987

Bibliography: horse books only