Fireball

Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1956, 208 pp.

Barlow Meyers

Gertrude Barlow Meyers (1902-?) wrote a few children’s books - probably best known among them is her contribution to the Annette series, Annette:  Mystery at Medicine Wheel.  Her other horse books are in the Western ranch style.

Finding the book:  both books are reasonably easy to find: The Blue Runner tends to be more expensive.  Neither were published in the UK.

Sources and links:

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

National Library of Congress

A review of The Blue Runner on the Pony Book Chronicles

Covers for some of her other books

Disney’s Annette

Bibliography - horse books only

Last of the Wild Stallions
Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1949, illus Bill Wickham, 176 pp.

Jeff and the other local ranchers gather together to catch all the wild horses in their area.  Jeff hopes that he
will be able to make the colt he has called Sky High into a fine ranch hosre, but then the horse is stolen and
used as a bucker in a rodeo.

The Blue Runner

Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1960, 205 pp.

Mike seeks out Matt Iliff to ask him for a job at the Pigeon Track Ranch.  Mike is actually Matt’s son, but
decides to prove his worth as a trainer before he reveals all.

Annette:  Mystery at the Medicine Wheel

Whitman Publishing, Wisconsin, 1964, illus Robert L. Jenney & Maxine mcCaffrey. 212 pp.

Part of the Annette series.  Annette is on her way to her visit her Aunt and Uncle at the  Circle Y Ranch via bus.
It doesn’t go to plan, as she and John Running, with whom she’s travelling, are involved in a kidnapping.