The Red Mustang

The red mustang burns across the southern New Mexico prairie like a living flame. On his back sits fourteen-year-old Cal Evans, broad-shouldered and gray-eyed, a boy who feels more at home in the saddle than anywhere else in the world. When Apache raiders strike, stealing cattle and threatening to run off every horse on his father's ranch, Cal is thrust into a battle that will test every ounce of courage he possesses. Alongside grizzled cowboy Sam Herrick, he gives chase across dangerous territory, his fiery mustang carrying him deeper into peril as the stakes climb. What follows is a breathless frontier adventure where a boy must become a man faster than any childhood should demand. Written in 1889, the novel captures a vanished era with vivid energy, its action sequences still crackling with tension over a century later. The bond between Cal and his magnificent red mustang lies at its heart: a partnership of equals between boy and beast that makes this more than a simple cattle western. It's for readers who want to feel the wind of the open range and believe, for a few hundred pages, that courage and a fast horse can see you through anything.