My Friend Flicka

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Set on the Goose Bar Ranch in Wyomingwith its dramatic landscapes, its wild beauty, and its overwhelming spaciousnessthis is the simple, moving story of Ken McLaughlin, and his chesnut filly, Flicka.

Ken, a daydreamer and chronic time-waster is an enigma to his brusque, practical father. And although his mother is filled with sympathy for the boy, she is powerless to bring father and son closer together. Kens fierce devotion to Flicka will at one point nearly cost him his life. But it is this same devotion that eventually causes the boy to assume the responsibilities of growing up, and he finally wins his fathers acceptance.

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"A beautiful book....It will pass into that borderland where some of the best-loved books in the English tongue hold their immortality, on the shelf with Treasure Island, and Dumas and Dickens, and Mutiny on the Bounty." -- New York Herald Tribune

"A blend of Steinbeck's short gem, The Red Pony, and Rawling's The Yearling....This novel has sentiment and quality." -- Donald Gordon

Author Bio

Mary OHara was born on July 10, 1885, in Cape May Point, New Jersey. She was a screenwriter during the silent film era and wrote several novels, including the range country trilogy My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming. She also authored a novella, The Catch Colt, and Wyoming Summer, based on her diary of sixteen years. She died on October 14, 1980.