An African-American cowboy is so in tune with wild mustangs that they accept him into the herd, thus enabling him singlehandedly to take them to the corral.
"[Presents] the story of a girl and a wild horse, equally out of place in a strange, new world, but equally fierce and brave. With each other to lean on, will these two free spirits be able to find their place in the West?"--Back cover.
Katie Rose, taken in by the Stevenses after the death of her parents, dreams of escaping the hard work and dreariness of her life by going to live with her uncle in the west, and when her caretaker leaves her Katie tries to make the trip on her own.
When fourteen-year-old Annie buys a horse at an auction of mustangs she is thrilled to finally have a horse of her own at Colorado's Top Tier Stable, where she volunteers in exchange for riding lessons--but then someone sets the barn on fire, and Annie struggles to save the horses boarded there, and find out who is responsible.
Despite the dangers, Black Cloud enjoys his life as a wild mustang colt in 1951 Nevada but when humans round up and slaughter his herd, he is rescued by a talkative girl named Annie who gives him a safe and comfortable life, lacking nothing but freedom.
"[Presents] the story of a girl and a wild horse, equally out of place in a strange, new world, but equally fierce and brave. With each other to lean on, will these two free spirits be able to find their place in the West?"--Back cover.
