About the author
Donald Emmet Worcester (1915–2003) was born in Arizona. He spent most of his childhood on his grandfather’s homestead on the edge of the Mojave Desert. It was here that he became a cowboy, and learned the way of life of the Indians whose reservation was nearby. He was educated at Bard College and the University of California. He became a professor in the History Department of the University of Florida, moving to the Texas Christian University. The Texas Christian University Press have been instrumental in keeping Worcester’s books before a present day audience, reprinting many. He wrote on the history of the Southwestern United States and its animals, and distilled these into his children’s books. He was the president of the Western Writers of America from 1973–74.
Finding the books
All are easy to find, particularly the titles which have been republished.
Links and sources
The excellent Pony Book Chronicles on Lone Hunter’s Gray Pony and Donald E Worcester
Donald Worcester’s papers at the University of Texas
Terri Wear: Horse Stories: An Annotated Bibliography
Series
Lone Hunter
Lone Hunter’s Gray Pony
Lone Hunter and the Cheyennes
Lone Hunter’s First Buffalo Hunt
Lone Hunter and the Wild Horses
Bibliography (horse books only)
Lone Hunter’s Gray Pony
Oxford University Press, New York, 1956, 94 pp, illus Harper Johnson
Texas Christian University Press, 1985, 70 pp, illus Paige Pauley
Lone Hunter is given a grey pony taken in a raid on the Pawnees. He teaches the pony to be a buffalo horse, but then the stolen pony is stolen again, by the Kiowa.
Lone Hunter and the Cheyennes
Oxford University Press, New York, 1957, 103 pp, illus Harper Johnson
Texas Christian University Press, 1985, 77 pp, illus Paige Pauley
Lone Hunter and Buffalo Boy are captured by the Cheyenne. Lone Hunter must get back to his own tribe, and the only way he can do this is by relying on his skills as a warrior.
Lone Hunter’s First Buffalo Hunt
H Z Walck, New York, 1958, 92 pp, illus Harper Johnson
Lone Hunter and his pony get to buffalo hunt. Lone Hunter has a dream in which the location of the herd is revealed to him.
Lone Hunter and the Wild Horses
H Z Walck, New York,1959, 94 pp, illus Harper Johnson
Lone Hunter and Buffalo Boy go on a wild horse hunt, which is successful, but all the horses are taken by raiders.
War Pony
H Z Walck, New York,1961, 125 pp, illus Harper Johnson
Texas Christian University Press, 1984, 95 pp, illus Paige Pauley
Alfredo has a buckskin cow horse, which he has to give up so it can serve in the cavalry fighting Indian attacks in New Mexico. After that, the horse is captured during battle by a Comanche warrior.
