About the author
Sewell Ford (1868–1946) wrote the Torchy series, and also numerous horsey short stories. Some of these were collected into two volumes, Horses Nine and Just Horses.
Finding the books
Not impossible to find, and both Horses Nine and Just Horses are available as POD, though with the usual caveats about quality.
Links and sources
Many thanks to Lisa Catz for the photograph.
Bibliography (horse books only)
Horses Nine – Stories of Horse and Saddle
Scribners 1903
George Newnes, London, 1903, 270 pp
Freeport, New York, 1970, 270 pp
Nine short stories with two different illustrators, one of whom is L Maynard Dixon. The stories include: Jerry, Keno: a Cayuse
Known to Fame, The Life of the Crowded Way, The Story of Pericles of Spread Eagle Battery, Fiddler, The Straying of
Lucifer, Deacon: and How He Took out the Christmas Mail.
Just Horses
Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1910, 198 pp
Freeport, New York, 1970, 198 pp
The stories include: Jerry, Keno: a Cayuse Known to Fame, The Life of the Crowded Way, The Story of Pericles of Spread Eagle Battery, Fiddler, The Straying of Lucifer, Deacon: and How He Took out the Christmas Mail.
Short stories in other collections
Classic Horse Stories, ed Karen L Mitchell
Lowell House Juvenile, Los Angeles, 1995, 96 pp, illus Michele Maltseff
Contains: Barnacles, by Sewell Ford
Stories of Horses We Love: Eleven Tales of Unforgettable Equine Companions
Sweetwater Press, NC, 2007, 191 pp.
Contains: Old Silver: a Story of the Gray Horse Truck, by Sewell Ford