San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion
by Marguerite Henry (Author) Robert Lougheed (Illustrator)
Peter Lundy has two joys in life: the rugged western plains where he has grown up and San Domingo, a Medicine Hat Stallion. The Indians believe such a horse is sacred-- that neither bullet nor arrow can harm its rider. As they explore the prairie together, a bond forms between Peter and San Domingo that can never be broken.
But Peter's father, Jethro Lundy, knows only one love: bargaining. He trades San Domingo for a thoroughbred. How can Peter ever forgive his father? His only choice is to leave home forever!
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This is mostly the story of a boy growing up in the West just before the Civil War, of his embittered, seemingly rejecting father and the gentle mother who it turns out only married Peter's father for the baby's sake after his real mother died of cholera. Then there's also the old Irishman who passes through, mending Peter's ribs and his ego. The horse is less central than in other of the author's works, but smoothly integrated into the interpersonal developments: his father sells the ""Indian gentled"" San Domingo when Peter, its real owner, is off on an errand, but boy and horse meet up again when Peter is a Pony Express rider rushing to California with an urgent message from President Lincoln, and San Domingo dies saving the boy's life. Peter meanwhile earns his father's grudging respect by killing (in self-defense) the man who had mistreated the father. Lougheed's pulp western color illustrations merely underline the familiarity of Henry's formula, but she manages once again to keep it alive for all her readers. - Kirkus
Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry (1902-1997) was the beloved author of such classic horse stories as King of the Wind, Misty of Chincoteague, and Stormy, Misty's Foal, and her work has won several Newbery Awards and Honors. Wesley Dennis was best known for his illustrations in collaboration with author Marguerite Henry. They published sixteen books together.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780689716317
Lexile Measure
850
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Publication date
October 19, 1992
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV016140 - Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 19th Century
JUV002130 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Horses
JUV002130 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Horses
Library of Congress categories
Fiction
Juvenile works
Horses
West (U.S.)
Western stories
Western fiction
Juvenile works
Horses
West (U.S.)
Western stories
Western fiction
