Young Martha Leeson leaves home to become an itinerant bronco buster

January 29, 2026

I’d call this book almost a sequel to Monte Walsh by Jack Schaefer, and I consider Monte Walsh one of the perfect novels. The writing is superb, in that run-on raconteur style that feels like the easy canter of a horse. It’s 1917, and young Martha Leeson leaves home to become an itinerant bronco buster, only she’s a horse whisperer instead and she doesn’t get that far from home, either.

–from my review of Molly Gloss’ The Hearts of Horses


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