Wildfire, the Red Stallion: And Other Great Horse Stories

by Joe L. Wheeler

In the title story by Zane Grey, Lucy and her fiancé, Lin, are roped to horses and pursued not only by outlaws, but also by a raging forest fire. As you read other stories, you’ll sympathize with a little boy who asked only for a pony for Christmas but was disappointed, learn how an old horse named Major preached a sermon to his owners, and realize that looks aren’t everything—even in an Appaloosa without spots. This collection of eighteen outstanding horse stories will stay in your heart.

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2006

About the author

Joe Wheeler has been labeled many things: as Father Christmas because of his editing/compiling America’s longest-running Christmas of story series — Christmas in My Heart (now in its 18th season); as one of America’s leading story anthologists (56 story collections by twelve publishing houses); as the world’s foremost authority on life and times of the frontier writer Zane Grey (he is co-founder and executive director of the international Zane Grey’s West Society); as a biographer, having written full-length biographies of Abraham Lincoln and St. Nicholas and shorter biographies of Louisa May Alcott, Abbie Farwell Brown, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gene Stratton Porter, Grace Richmond, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and Lew Wallace; and as a Renaissance Man because of his encyclopedic interest in everything (popular culture as well as the academic); and his master’s degree in the teaching of History, his master’s degree in English (thesis on Utopian and Dystopian literature), and his Vanderbilt doctorate in English (History of Ideas emphasis).

Because of all these variables, and stirring in his 71 books (and counting), this blog series promises to be unlike any other — and that’s why he titles the series, “UNCHARTED WATERS.”

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great collection of horse stories. Joe Wheeler has another wonderful success! Good, clean reading.

[Ellie Gaidai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good collection of stories. They were very intense though kept me on my toes.