COMANCHE OF THE SEVENTH

by Margaret Leighton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 1956

Comanche was a real horse. His rider was Captain Myles Keogh, of Troop I of the 7th United States Cavalry, who died with Custer at the tragic battle, Little Big Horn. But before that day, Comanche and Keogh spent eight happy, exciting years together in the West, a period that was as full of Indian raids and adventures as it was of the deeds that eventually made Comanche one of the most beloved of war horses. Margaret Leighton begins her story with a reconstruction of Comanche's youth with a band of wild plains horses; he was six years old before he was finally rounded up and brought to St. Louis for sale. From then on his life was recorded fact, for Comanche was to prove a horse with remarkable degrees of intelligence and faithfulness. Indeed, Comanche was the only being left alive after Custer's last raid. Relief troops found him wounded and standing over Keogh's body, and nursed him slowly and painfully back to camp and eventually, back to health whereupon he lived out a happy and much revered old age. An appealing tribute.

Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1956

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Farrar, Straus- Ariel

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1956

Categories: NONFICTION