About the author
Genevieve Torrey Eames was born in California, and lived in the United States, Paris and London. In the introduction to one of her earliest books, A Horse to Remember, she said: “All my life has been mixed up, somehow, with dogs and horses. So, naturally when I sat down to write a story , I wrote about what I know best – dogs and horses!” A Horse to Remember won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation award for Children’s Literature.
Finding the books
Flying Roundup, Pat Rides the Trail, A Horse to Remember, Good Luck Colt and Ghost Town Cowboy are all reasonably easy to find, though copies are generally ex-library. Handy of the Triple S (a dog story) is expensive, and harder to find. A Horse to Remember was published in the UK, and is reasonably easy to find here, though much less so with its dustjacket.
Links and sources
Reviews and pictures of A Horse to Remember, The Good Luck Colt and Pat Rides the Trail
Bibliography (horse books only)
Pat Rides the Trail
Messner, New York, 1946, illus Dan Noonan, 146 pp.
Pat Carey buys the mare West Wind at auction, and enters her in the Hundred Mile Trail Ride.
A Horse to Remember
Messner, New York, 1947, illus Paul Brown, 146 pp. (left)Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1949, 145 pp. Illus Paul Brown
A review of A Horse to Remember.
Jarvis prefers watching horses being cared for than to ride them. He loves Joker, an ugly horse neglected by everyone except him. Joker begins to change colour and turns palomino, at which point Jarvis’ father wants to sell him. Jarvis now has to learn to ride, and earn the right to keep Joker.
Ghost Town Cowboy
Messner, New York, 1951, illus Paul Brown, 176 pp.
To Steve the west is much more exciting than the deserted mining town, and helping Gopher Pete. He watches cattle, cowboys and horses, and wishes he could be a rancher instead of a miner. His only consolation is his pet calf Whitey. To save his calf from being eaten, Steve runs away to the ranch. He finds ranching more exciting than he had ever dreamed, but learns Gopher Pete is in danger, and goes back to help him.
The Good Luck Colt
Messner, New York, 1953, illus Paul Brown, 191 pp.
A review of The Good Luck Colt.
Martin and his father dream of winning the Hambletonian with one of their Standardbred horses. Martin’s colt, Good Luck, is a promising trotter, but he will not be able to race unless Martin can trace the colt’s dam’s papers.
Flying Roundup
Messner, New York, 1957, illus Lorence F Bjorklund, 190 pp.
Johnny is fishing when he first sees the wild horses being rounded up by an airplane – they are being rounded up slaughter, and it’s his best friend’s father, Vern, who is flying the plane. Johnny Longs for a particular chestnut colt in a wild herd, and his friend, Charlie Running Horse, plans to catch and brand the herd, and promises Johnny the colt if he helps. Vern offers to help look forthe colt, but his plane crashes. This makes Johnny rethink the situation of the wild horses. Perhaps they should go to make room for cattle. And more importantly he learns that as much as you love an animal, you love a brave man more.
Also
Handy of the Triple S
Messner, New York, 1949, illus Paul Brown, 164 pp.
Horses, Horses, Horses: Phyllis Fenner
A short story: Jarvis Discovers Gold