THE GLORY HORSE: A Story of the Battle of San Jacinto, and Texas in 1836

by Ramona Maher ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, 1974

How you'll feel about The Glory Horse depends first of all on whether the cry ""Remember the Alamo"" sends patriotic chills up your spine, and then on how you react to such matter-of-fact battle reports as ""they killed the enemy in memory of friends and countrymen who had died there."" Otherwise, this is a routine fictionalization of the (true?) legend of Old Whip, a racehorse confiscated by Santa Anna, and of young Jimmy Brown, whose search for the horse led to Santa Anna's capture after the Battle of San Jacinto. The story is slowed down by Jimmy's presence at the climactic battle robbing elbows with Sam Houston and his sidekick Deaf Smith, though Gammell's pencil sketches have a compensating spontaneity and period feeling.

Pub Date: Oct. 1, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: 64

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1974

Categories: FICTION