Mustang:Wild Spirit of the West is a good story about a girl who loves horses all of her life. When she grows up, she tries to stop the killing of wild mustangs. It is a story that I'm sure you would enjoy.

When I was in Elementary School, I read all of the books in the school library that had to do with horses. Of all of them, this was my favorite. I've remembered it until today when I decided to refresh my memory from 7 years ago. I think it's so neat that books like this can stay with you and impact your outlook after so many years. This is such a beautiful and inspiring story, I would recommend it to anyone and everyone.

I first read the book in sixth grade for a book report. One of my friends said I should read it because my name is Annie, too. The aspect I like most about it was the fact that it the hero was a woman, and she fought with courage and determination for something that she believed was right.

This was one of the worst histories I have ever read. I finally had to put it down after finishing about 250 of its 400 pages, because I thought I might go insane if I continued.

The book consists largely of recitation of facts, repetition of thousands of names of old Houston families, and constant musings about how wonderful Houston was in those old, carefree days. (The author even writes that in those simpler, happy times no one complained about Houston summers.)

She has researched her subject thoroughly, talking with hundreds of people who can recall the city in the early 20th century; but there's hardly any context or analysis for this blob of material. It's just thrown out there in this haze of "the wonderful old days."

Yes, one can parse through all the verbiage about how much fun it was to go the park, sail in the bay, etc. etc., and pick up some useful morsels about the facts behind Houston's growth and development.

But they are few and far between.

In an achademic style, Margurite Johnson leads us through a description of Houston as a small Gulf Coast community to a thriving Port City backed by the oil investment. She does a great deal to enrich the readers knowledge of Texas metropolitan outlook on it's relationship to it's environment. It serves as a good primer for further research.

I found this book to be full of rich history. It helped me to understand not only the evolution of an oil town, but to relate to American history in a more detailed way.