Jennie Brown Rawlins

Jennie Rawlins Brown (1910-2003) was an Idaho based author who started writing once her children were teenagers and she had more time to herself.  She was named Idaho’s Writer of the Year for three years, and wrote for adults as well as for children.  Her best known book, High Button Shoes, was a fictionalised account of her childhood on a farm.  Her daughters created a scholarship in creative writing in her name.

She wrote, as far as I am aware, one horse book.  Tame the Wild Wind is a coming of age story.  

Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the picture and information.

Finding the book:  easy to find, but was not printed in the UK.

Sources and links:

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

Biographical information

Biographical information, and information on the Jennie Brown Rawlins Scholarship in Creative Writing

Biblography - horse books only

Tame the Wild Wind

Avalon Books, New York, 1968, 191 pp.

“Sixteen-year-old Chris Collins comes to stay with the Brown family on their farm for the summer. He is an orphan
who has been living with other relatives, and has behavioural problems. Jennie Brown had been looking forward to
having a fun summer with Chris, her friend Rosemary, and the horses. But Chris does not want friends, and is
withdrawn and unfriendly. Then a wild stallion is captured, and Chris takes on the job of taming him. The horse
provides him with a new interest in life, and the effect of his relationship with the stallion has remarkable effects on
all of them. Then a flood and a resulting tragedy tests how much progress Chris has actually made.”