In this, the third book of The Good Lord Made Them All series, Joe L. Wheeler turns his talents and attention to horses. This inspiring collection of stories will evoke laughter, tears, and amazement.

 “The horse has been a symbol of nobility and royalty. . . . It was unthinkable for a king, general, statesman, or hero to be other than a superb horseman. For well over three thousand years, the horse represented the fastest land speed known to man. No more significant and wrenching change has our world ever known than the switch from a horse-driven world to a machine-driven one.”—Joe L. Wheeler

In the title story by Zane Grey, Lucy and her fiancé, Lin, are roped to horses and pursued not only by outlaws, but also by a raging forest fire. As you read other stories, you’ll sympathize with a little boy who asked only for a pony for Christmas but was disappointed, learn how an old horse named Major preached a sermon to his owners, and realize that looks aren’t everything—even in an Appaloosa without spots. This collection of eighteen outstanding horse stories will stay in your heart.

Joe Wheeler’s writing career started in the fall of 1992 with a collection of heart-tugging stories called Christmas in My Heart, a series that he has become well-known for. Joe Wheeler has been called everything from "Keeper of the Story" to "Father Christmas."  He has been a frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson’s radio show "Focus on the Family", and today is considered to be one of America’s leading story anthologizers, editing collections for nine publishers: Doubleday/Random House, WaterBrook/Random House, Guideposts, Focus on the Family, Tyndale House, Harvest House, Review and Herald Publishing Association, RiverOak Publishing, and Pacific Press Publishing Association.

When asked how he got started, Wheeler tells interviewers that it all dates back to being home-schooled by a remarkable woman, Barbara Leininger Wheeler, his mother (both a teacher and a missionary) in Latin America.  His mother, an elocutionist of the old school, memorized thousands of pages of stories, readings, and poetry, and frequently recited in public.  But her specialty was the old-time, sentimental, Judeo-Christian short stories.  And his mother poured herself – and her stories – into her son, inoculating him with a terminal case of the ‘storyitis virus.’ 

Wheeler has a bachelor’s degree in both history and English from Pacific Union College, a master’s degree in history, a master’s degree in English from California State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University.  Today, Wheeler is senior fellow for cultural studies at the Center for the New West in Denver, Colorado, and professor emeritus of Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Wheeler and his wife, Connie, make their home in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado where they receive 200 inches of snow a year.