Troy Nesbit
Sand Dune Pony
Whitman Pub Co, Racine, 1952, illus Jules Gotleib, 250 pp.
Harvey House, 1960
Roberts Rinehart, Niwot, 1991, 250 pp.
Pete comes out to stay with his Uncle for the summer on his Lazy B-
finds that his Uncle has had a run of bad luck.
Troy Nesbit was a pseudonym used by Franklin Folsom. Franklin Folsom graduated from the University of Colorado in 1928, and was a Rhodes Scholar. He became well known for his historical books: he had a particular interest in archaeology. He wrote non fiction titles with his wife, and under his own name wrote over 80 books, including some for children. As well as Sand Dune Pony, he contributed a title for the Fury series, much of which was written by Albert G Miller.
Finding the book: reasonably easy to find. Fury is not particularly common in its UK printing, but is not usually expensive.
Sources and links:
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
Franklin Folsom: a memoir
Bibliography -
Fury and the Mystery at Trapper’s Hole
Whitman, 1959, illus Paul Frame
Charles Birchall & Sons, London, undated
Joey Newston and his friend Pee WW, together with their horses Fury and Chief set
out to discover a treasure of
buried gold coins from a bank robbery. Then some horse
fossils are discovered, which disrupts their plans
somewhat.
