Leland Silliman
Golden Cloud in Texas
John C Winston & Co, Philadephia, 1953,illus Pers Crowell, 243 pp.
Orrin decides to take his mare Golden Cloud to perform at the fairs in Texas, so
he can help his partner Blacky
expand their horse business.
Leland Silliman was born in New York. He was a swimming coach, and during the Second World War, was involved with the Navy’s swimming programme. He wrote several children’s books, amongst which the best known book was probably The Scrapper, about summer camp life. He wrote two horse books, about the palomino Golden Cloud, who is taught to do tricks.
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the pictures.
Finding the books: neither of the books were published in the UK. Both are reasonably easy to find in the USA, and are generally reasonably priced.
Sources and links:
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
A little biographical information
Biblography -
Golden Cloud, Palomino of Sunset Hill
John C Winston & Co, Philadelphia, 1950, illus Pers Crowell. 232 pp.
Scholastic 1962, 1974, pb
Orrin gets a job looking after Blacky Martin’s palomino mare. He teaches her new
filly, Golden Cloud, tricks,
but doesn’t have any luck persuading Blacky the filly
should be his.
Golden Cloud
Golden Cloud, Palomino of Sunset Hill
Golden Cloud in Texas
