Max Brand 
The Stolen Stallion 

The Stolen Stallion by Max Brand is the tale of how famous cowboy Silvertip finds and tames his horse, Parade. Brand’s novel is an evaluation of the hearts and souls of man. Excerpt: ‘He stood sixteen-three, but his hoofs pressed the ground like the paws of a cat. Wherever the moonlight fingered him, shoulder or flank, it touched on silk. With head raised, he looked into the wind, and there seemed in him a lightness of spirit, as though he were capable of leaping into the air and striding on it; but the leather crossbars of a halter were fitted over his head and a lead rope trailed down into the hand of Lake, the half-breed.’