Mary O'Hara
Description
Mary O'Hara Alsop was born in Cape May Point NJ, the third child of a Reverend and his wife. She was raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York. In 1905 she married her third cousin, Kent Kane Parrot, with whom she had two children, the first of which died of skin cancer in her early teens. She divorced Parrot and went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1920s. In In 1922 she married Helge Sture-Vasa and moved with him to Wyoming. In 1930 they bought a ranch, which they renamed Remount Ranch, and stocked it with sheep. The Great Depression ended the profitability of sheep and the couple managed to get by by delivering milk in Cheyenne and breeding horses, and on O'Hara's writing income. She wrote mainly Wyoming ranch stories, and is best known for My Friend Flicka (1941), Thunderhead (1943), and Green Grass of Wyoming (1946). In 1946 O'Hara and her husband sold the ranch and purchased one in California. The following year they divorced, and O'Hara moved to Monroe CT where she continued to write. In 1968 she moved to Chevy Chase MD, where she lived until she died of arteriosclerosis.
Books
Thunderhead
HUMANS LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES. I CANNOT. I MAKE NOT MISTAKES. The Thunderhead is the perfect ruler of a perfect world, but it has no control over the scythedom. A year has passed since Rowan has gone off grid. Since then he has become an urban legend, a vigilante snuffing out corrupt scythes in a trial by fire. His story is told in whispers across the continent. As Scythe Anastasia, Citra gleans with compassion and openly challenges the ideals of the "new order." But when her life is threatened and her methods questioned, it becomes clear that not everyone is open to the change. In the thrilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe, old foes and new enemies converge. And as corruption within the scythedom spreads, Rowan and Citra begin to lose hope. Will the Thunderhead intervene? Or will it simply watch as this perfect world begins to unravel? This description comes from the publisher. Thunderhead is the second book in the Arc of a Scythe, the first of which is Scythe.
Green Grass of Wyoming
This is the final novel of the My Friend Flicka trilogy. In this story, Thunderhead, Ken's wild white stallion, has escaped his remote mountain valley and is stealing mares from the Wyoming ranchers. In his band of stolen mares is Crown Jewel, a valuable racing filly. Ken's search for Thunderhead and Crown Jewel takes him through three states. And, for the first time in his life, Ken finds a challenge to his loyalty and fierce affection for his horses. Crown Jewel belongs to young Carey Marsh. With the fates of their horses bound together, it is natural that she and Ken should see a great deal of each other. Before he realizes it, Ken McLaughlin loses his heart to Crown Jewel's captivating mistress.