Sand Dune Pony

Troy Nesbit

Sand Dune Pony is the story of a boy named Pete and a wild mustang pony set in what is now Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. At the center of the story is a sinister individual who is seemingly dedicated to causing random harm. Pete and an old cowboy by the name of Hatsy get to the bottom of the mystery as they come across the remains of long-dead humans and the bodies of slain animals.

The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena—caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes, and forests—and a sense of the past as seen through archaeology. In many of the narratives, events of long ago are seen to have left traces of their passing. Notwithstanding the fact that the books were written in the 1950s, the progressive Franklin Folsom (alias Troy Nesbit) had refreshing views of women, Native Americans, and the environment, and he was prescient in having his characters often oppose corporate and government efforts to develop wilderness areas.

Taylor Trade Publishing

Pages: 248 • Trim: 5½ x 7¼

978-1-58979-811-3 • Paperback • May 2013 • $12.95 • (£9.99)

978-1-58979-812-0 • eBook • May 2013 • $6.99 • (£4.99)

Series: The Wilderness Mystery Series

Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Westerns

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Summary

Sand Dune Pony is the story of a boy named Pete and a wild mustang pony set in what is now Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. At the center of the story is a sinister individual who is seemingly dedicated to causing random harm. Pete and an old cowboy by the name of Hatsy get to the bottom of the mystery as they come across the remains of long-dead humans and the bodies of slain animals.

The recurrent themes of the books in the Wilderness Mystery Series are natural phenomena—caves, canyons, mountains, sand dunes, and forests—and a sense of the past as seen through archaeology. In many of the narratives, events of long ago are seen to have left traces of their passing. Notwithstanding the fact that the books were written in the 1950s, the progressive Franklin Folsom (alias Troy Nesbit) had refreshing views of women, Native Americans, and the environment, and he was prescient in having his characters often oppose corporate and government efforts to develop wilderness areas.

Details

Taylor Trade Publishing

Pages: 248 • Trim: 5½ x 7¼

978-1-58979-811-3 • Paperback • May 2013 • $12.95 • (£9.99)

978-1-58979-812-0 • eBook • May 2013 • $6.99 • (£4.99)

Series: The Wilderness Mystery Series

Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction / Westerns

Author

Troy Nesbit was a nom de plume of the late Franklin Folsom, a graduate of the University of Colorado and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1928. The author of over eighty books under various names, he was also an avocational anthropologist and wrote several scholarly books on Native Americans of the American Southwest.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: No Horse to Ride
Chapter 2: Mysterious Visitor
Chapter 3: Hatsy’s Scheme
Chapter 4: Horse Trap
Chapter 5: A Break in the Fence
Chapter 6: The Chase
Chapter 7: The Young Stallion
Chapter 8: Sandy Gets His Name
Chapter 9: “Take it Easy!”
Chapter 10: Sacking Out
Chapter 11: Assorted Bad Hombres
Chapter 12: Ski-jaw and Salami
Chapter 13: Duck-Pond Raider
Chapter 14: Sandy Disappears
Chapter 15: Murdered Mustangs
Chapter 16: Pete’s Discovery
Chapter 17: Danger in the Dunes
Chapter 18: Sandy Spooks Again
Chapter 19: Rendezvous at Night
Chapter 20: Wrapped in Cellophane
Chapter 21: Twenty-Dollar Questions
Chapter 22: Sandy’s Choice

Reviews

[Folsom] brought high ideals to the [mystery] genre, and he deserves to be better known among those who read and collect series literature.

— The Mystery & Adventure Series Review

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