Other editions of book Smoky: The Cow Horse

This book won the prized children's book award, The Newbery Medal, in 1927. In this book, Clint teaches a little black colt all he needs to know to run cattle on the prairie. One Amazon review states: "Written by a cowboy (in cowboy vernacular). The horse was as important as a car today. Will Rogers said Will James book offers in a accurate account of the role the horse played in the success and/ survival of a cowboy. One of my all time favorite books."

Taken from the preface: "The horse is not appreciated and never will be appreciated enough,-few humans, even them that works him, really know him, but then there's so much to know about him. I've wrote this whole book on only one horse and when I first started it I was afraid I'd run out of something to write, but I wasn't half thru when I begin to realize I had to do some squeezing to get the things in I wanted; and when I come to the last chapter was when I seen how if I spent my life writing on the horse alone and lived to be a hundred I'd only said maybe half of what I feel ought to be said". Will James III