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When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.
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Coal Black Horse, Robert Olmstead
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Coal Black Horse
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Robert Olmstead
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Released
- 2007
- Pages
- 232
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Nature, Historical Fiction, Animals, Military Fiction, Wars, USA, Wild West, 19th century, Coming Of Age, Horses, Dark, Civil War, Mothers, Search, Father, American South, Boys
- Original title
- Coal black horse
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.