The black stallion;
illustrated by Keith Ward.
- New York, Random House [1941]
- ix, 275 p. illus. 21 cm.
Sequel: The black stallion returns.
Pulled to a desert island by a wild black stallion he has freed during a shipwreck at sea, then rescued by a southbound freighter, a seventeen-year-old boy befriends the horse, trains him by night, and rides him to victory in a match race.