About the author
Henry V Larom (1903–75) was a Wyoming based author, who wrote the Mountain Pony series about Andy and his horse Sunny. The series was set on a dude ranch in Wyoming. It was reprinted in its entirety as part of Grosset & Dunlap’s Famous Horse series.
There is a Henry V Larom Award for outstanding fiction and poetry which appears to be given by SUNY Rockland Community College.
Finding the books:
None of the books were published in the UK. All are easy to find, and cheap, in the USA.
Links and sources
A little biographical information
Terri A. Wear: Horse Stories, an Annotated Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 1987
Many thanks to Lisa Catz, Susan Bourgeau, Fiona Williams and Downtown Books, Milwaukee for the pictures and information.
Series
Mountain Pony
Mountain Pony
Mountain Pony and the Pinto Colt
Mountain Pony and the Rodeo Mystery
Mountain Pony and the Elkhorn Mystery
Bibliography (horse books only)
Mountain Pony, a Story of the Wyoming Rockies
McGraw Hill, New York, 1946, 240 pp, illus Ross Santee
Grosset & Dunlap, Famous Horse Series
Scholastic, pb, 1980, cover Leo Summers,
Illus Robert Frankenburg
The first Andy story: he buys a horse which has been badly treated from Randy Garland. What Andy doesn’t realise at that point is that Randy is the sworn enemy of Andy’s Uncle Wes.
Mountain Pony and the Pinto Colt
Whittlesey House, New York, 1947,
202 pp, illus Ross Santee
Grosset & Dunlap, Famous Horse Series
Scholastic, pb
Disaster strikes when Andy’s sorrel horse, and a pinto colt are stolen. Andy finds out they’re going to be sold for slaughter, but by swimming through a canyon river, Andy is able to save the day.
Mountain Pony and the Rodeo Mystery
Whittlesey House, New York, 1949, 228 pp, illus Ross Santee
Grosset & Dunlap, Famous Horse Series
“When Andy’s pet horse Brownie is stolen because he is a natural bucker,
Andy and his horse Sunny track the stolen horse to a New York rodeo where
he tries to prove that the famous horse Slipstream is really his horse Brownie.”
Mountain Pony and the Elkhorn Mystery
Whittlesey House, New York, 1950, 222 pp, illus Ross Santee
Grosset & Dunlap, Famous Horse Series
Many thanks to Augustine Funnell Books for letting me use their scan of this book.
Andy is at a new ranch, but finds signs of digging about the property. The previous owner was said to have buried treasure there, so Andy makes it his mission to find out if he really did.
Bronco Charlie, Rider of the Pony Express
Whittlesey, New York, 1951, 48 pp, illus Wesley Dennis
The Pony Express from Sacramento to Placerville needs a relief rider, and Charlie Miller is allowed to fill in. He’s too young to ride, but despite this he has hopes of becoming a permanent rider.
Ride Like an Indian!
Whittlesey, New York, 1958, 140 pp, illus Wesley Dennis
Many thanks to Downtown Books, Milwaukee, for letting me use their picture.
Applesauce is a lazy old Appaloosa horse, and that’s who Jerry gets to ride at camp. Jerry isn’t happy, but that all changes when he discovers from the Indian boy Sam that Applesauce is an Indian pony and the way to get him to react is to ride him like an Indian.
