title: The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Horse Tales
author:  Steven D. Price 
description: A veteran writer on horses, Price (The Quotable Horse Lover) has assembled a varied collection of tales on the noble steed. Unlike Paul B. Staudohaur's Boxing's Best Short Stories (LJ 10/15/99), this work blends fiction with book excerpts, newspaper columns, and even poetry. The selections include horseracing, cowboy life, rider training, and veterinary practice. Especially appealing are an "All Things" selection by James Herriott, Alexis Podjajsky's Spanish Riding School memoir, and Maxine Kumin on girls' love of horses. Lay readers may long for Price's The Horseman's Illustrated Dictionary (LJ 12/00) for help defining some of the terms used, but this is a fine adult and YA choice for public libraries. Morey Berger, St. Joseph's Hosp. Lib., Tucson, AZ <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # VENGEANCE IN A BOTTLE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### By HAPSBURG LIEBE
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
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  Short Stories
  
  
  _, February 10, 1945
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Author of “Big Hoss and Little Hoss,” etc.
  
  
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  Dingdong Bell Had a Reputation for Tellin' the Truth, Even When He
  
  
  Was on the Owlhoot
  
  
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  FOR an hour there had been a thin mist of rain. Night fell, the rain
  
  
  thickened. The cow horse turned into a long unused road of its own
  
  
  volition and was not checked. Ten minutes later, a weathered frame
  
  
  building, crossroads hotel and stage stop in bygone gold-rush days,
  
  
  rose dimly in the blackness a few rods off to the left.
  
  
  The cowboy reined in that direction, reined to a halt under a shed
  
  
  that flanked the old building, stepped out of his saddle and tied to
  
  
  one of the rotting posts. A mere whisper of a whinny had announced the
  
  
  fact that another horse was tied there