Frank Carlson Library

Joshua Ryder, an orphaned young man, has decided to head further west from Montana in the spring to settle near the Pacific Ocean and live in solitude with just his books and his horses for company. But a Nez Perce woman and her baby, an old washerwoman, a little girl of Chinese and white blood, and a young woman with red curls all begin to complicate his life. If he runs far enough and fast enough he can probably shake the law. If he stays and tries...

Spirit, a wild young mustang, journeys across the wilderness of the American frontier to regain his freedom and save his homeland. Along the way he forms a friendship with a Lakota brave, falls in love with a mare named Rain, and outwits an Army General.