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This is the story of a man and of a horse. Both had "sand." The horse was the magnificent black stallion that every cowboy in Wyoming would give half his life to catch. The man was young Tilden, the spoiled and dissipated son of a foolish mother and an all-too-busy father. Tilden had never seen real men until, left behind by an express-train one night in the midst of the plains, he stumbled, exhausted and terror-stricken, into a cow camp. Only then did he realize how contemptible a figure he was. He longed to be like the cowboys, and when he heard of the black stallion he felt that if only he could catch him, he would know he was a man.
This is the bare outline of as fine a story as Smoky. The background is the plains. The characters are cowboys and horses. The heroine is the daughter of an old rancher, and every cowboy dreams of leading the conquered black stallion to her. But the heart of the story is the long duel between the black stallion and the boy—a kind of epic of the plains.
—from the dust jacket
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