Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co., 1945. Hardcover beige cloth boads. [89] pages, b/w illustrations 29 cm Minor bumps to corners. Minor rubbing to head and foot of spine. Mild discoloration and soiling to boards. Else pages clean and binding tight. Very good. . Hardcover.

Contents: Joel meets Little Bub -- A fuzzy shadow -- Northward to Vermont -- Horse-Trader Hawkes -- Pa gets an idea -- Seven years! Seven years! -- A stranger knocking -- The pulling bee -- Stronger'n a ox -- A challenge from New York -- High duck dandies -- Out of the satchel -- Bub travels with the Singing Circuit -- The auction block -- Little Bub lost -- I'll go to Plattsburg! -- A whinny in the night -- Justin Morgan and the President. Abstract: An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan. Horses -- Folklore. Morgan horse - Fiction.