Synopsis
The classic story of an aimless teenager, a demanding father,
and aspirited horse -- now a major motion picture from Twentieth Century Fox
A daydreamer and a time waster, young Ken McLaughlin spends his days on his family's Wyoming ranch with his head in the clouds, surrounded by endless blue skies, wide-open spaces, and beautiful horses. To his brusque, practical father, the boy is an enigma and a disappointment. Then one day, Ken's life is filled with new purpose when he finds Flicka, a magnificent filly as wild as she is fast. Though the strong bond between boy and horse only fuels his father's disdain, Ken's growing love for his friend Flicka is changing him -- leading a once-aimless young man down the path to responsible adulthood, forging a new respect and understanding between father and son, and inspiring a fierce loyalty that nearly costs Ken his life.
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About Mary O'Hara
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Mary O'Hara
1885–1980
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.
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