Thread:Pamster315/@comment-30339728-20161229212239/@comment-29785768-20161231064726

Pamster315 wrote: Butting in and hijacking is always welcome where I'm concerned, El! My mother loved "Black Beauty," too. Mine was "The Silver Brumby"...but I prefer the real life stories overall. I'm a biography fiend.

Wow Pam! I just had to butt in, too, when I saw this! I was a massive Silver Brumby fan also. But I'm Australian, so I'm surprised that it reached you in the States. (I'm assuming that's where you grew up.)

Since I was never going to have a real-life horse, I named my bicycle "Thowra". And we were a bushwalking family, so I got to do some walks in the Snowy Mountains where the books are set, both the alpine areas and the eucalypt forests of the Cascades, where we camped in one of the very basic stockmen's huts featured in the books one night. Alas, never saw a brumby, though.