Gus Tavo
Ride the Pale Stallion
Knopf, New York, 1968, illus Lorence Bjorklund, 180 pp.
“A hard life homesteading in New Mexico is made harder for young Abe because of
the cold attitude of his
father, bitter over the loss of a leg in the Civil War and
the death of his wife. Then one day Abe saw a wild horse
band roaming the countryside,
led by a beautiful white stallion, and Abe began to live again. He became obsessed
by the idea of owning and riding that magnificent horse.”
Gus Tavo was a pseudonym used by Gus Ivan (Gustave Ivan). He wrote several children’s books; all set in wild America, about buffalo, grizzly bear and mountain lion. He wrote one horse book, Ride the Pale Stallion.
Finding the book: Reasonably easy to find. It was not published in the UK.
Sources and links:
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibilography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
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