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Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West

Description

Horses were in Annie Bronn's blood. For as long as she could remember, she had been fascinated by the spirited wild mustangs that roamed free throughout the West. So when greedy cattlemen started to round up the mustangs for slaughter, Annie knew it was up to her to save the breed.

The true story of Wild Horse Annie's crusade to save the mustangs is inspiring. Readers will cheer her on, all the way to the White House, in her struggle to preserve these beautiful creatures from extinction.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-19
Summary: "Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West"

Another good Henry book! Although it isn't a absolute favorite, I still enjoyed it and I liked reading about how Annie Bronn (is that even her real name?) saved the mustangs. I am a big fan of Marguerite.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-06-14
Summary: "Fictionalized history, but very significant in influencing US wild horse policy..."

In 1966, well-known author Marguerite Henry wrote Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West. With this book, millions of people became aware of the tale of Wild Horse Annie, who saved the wild horses of the West from slaughter.

Except, Henry took liberties with the history of Velma Johnston, eventually even claiming that she "owned the rights" to Velma's life. The fictionalization of Wild Horse Annie was seemingly approved by Velma Johnston herself, when she wrote "This clean, noble public image of Girl of the Golden West that I have become [via the book] is surely having a reforming influence on me".

So what WAS the history, and story, of Mrs. Charles C. Johnston, aka Velma Johnston, aka Wild Horse Annie? You'll find this in Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnston, by David Cruise and Alison Griffiths. The evolution of Wild Horse Annie into a free-roaming horse activist, then into a national celebrity, is a most interesting tale. And it is a tale best understood in this book, Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnston, and not Marguerite Henry's version.

HOWEVER, Marguerite Henry's book is unique and noteworthy in its own right. There is no doubt that it was an extremely significant "partnership" between Henry and Wild Horse Annie. For Henry, it sold hundreds of thousands of copies. For Wild Horse Annie, it was a critical tool for getting America's politicians and media outlets to be aware of the plight of free-roaming horses in the West, and the inspiration for getting children, huge fans of Henry's book, to bring "children power" to this fight.

Some of the differences between reality and Henry's account:

- Velma Johnston didn't speak with slang; she was very articulate and efficient with the written word as an executive secretary.

- She was estranged from her father following her hospitalization with polio, and they were never close again.

- Religion was never the inspiration for her work to save horses.

- Polio and the initial treatment (a full body cast) left her disfigured and in pain for most of her life.

Some of the accurate issues:

- Charlie and Velma were very, very happy, a true love story.

- The event of Velma following the livestock truck full of bleeding, injured, and dying wild mustangs, bound for slaughter into pet food, was a life-changing event.

- She was a significant, probably THE significant, force in getting state and national legislation passed to protect wild horses and burros.

Mustang: Wild Spirit Of The West is an interesting tale, and probably still is an engaging read to youngsters. It is full of action, and bravery, and commitment. Who can complain about that?

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-16
Summary: "Another wonderful story by Ms. Henry!"

Ms. Henry has such a way with character building, and I love how she builds her stories around fact. This story has loads of heart to it, and is a touching story for kids of all ages. It also discussed legislative process and how anyone has the power to fight for what they believe in and make a difference, no matter where they come from. A must read for any horse-loving child or adult.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-05-02
Summary: "Knowing the feeling."

If you want to know how someone truly feels about wild horses, "Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West" by Margurite Henry will take you there. It's a story about Velma Johnston, "Wild Horse Annie", who, in 1959 and 1971, was most instrumental in bringing about much-needed change to the welfare of the wild horse herds, by causing Congress to author bills that would protect the animals from mass murder. If you care about horses, read this book!

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-04-27
Summary: "The Power of One"

I'm really surprised that a book by Marguerite Henry which is still in print has only nine reviews (now ten), especially one that is so deserving to be read. Having read Henry's King of the Wind twice as a child, and Brighty, Misty, and Justin Morgan as an adult, I have been collecting her books for my classroom - her stories do not disappoint.

As another reviewer (Beverly) said, some books can "stay with you and impact your outlook after so many years." I can see this book having that effect on my fourth graders. When one of my college profs said that teachers who think they're going to change the world should look for another profession, I said to myself that teachers who DON'T think / hope they can change the world absolutely scare me and should definitely look for another profession! Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West, a true account, is about Annie Bronn Johnston, a woman who has this kind of save-the-world spirit herself.

Born and raised in Nevada, Annie has horses in her blood from her early years onward. As she is put into a full-body cast in her childhood to help overcome the effects of polio, she learns to become a fighter, a trait she carries into adulthood. One day, on her drive home from work, Annie happens upon a truck filled with captured wild mustangs, in very rough shape, being transported to slaughter. Annie follows the truck, and thus begins her fight to save the Mustangs from the cruel fate of being hunted and captured with airplanes and motorized vehicles, sometimes being chased as far as fifty miles before being captured, killed, and sold for dog food. Throughout the book, she finds that if the mustang is to be saved, she will need to be the one to lead the fight. Though she leads a simple life, living on a ranch with her husband and working as a secretary, she takes her fight first to the state legislature, where she is partially victorious. Realizing that this partial victory is not enough, as it has too many loopholes, she continues her fight all the way to the U.S. Congress, eventually saving the wild mustangs from extinction.

Annie illustrates that the power of one individual working passionately for a cause she believes in strongly can indeed change the world. This is a great book for girls, with a female heroine, and it illustrates how everyday people can and do have a say in the political process. We study government in my fourth grade classroom, and this would be a great book to use along with this study.

I'm eager to read more of Marguerite Henry's books, and will continue to stock my classroom with them. And for younger / lower readers, the horse books by Lois Szymanski (some, like Henry's, taking place at Chincoteague and including factual details) are a nice way to introduce this kind of stories to students.

Though I rated this book 5 out of 5 stars on the Amazon scale (as half points cannot be awarded), I would rate it 9 out of 10 (or 4 1/2 out of 5) on my own scale.