During the design selection process, officials from the program's 3 consulting organizations: The Native American Caucus, National Congress of American Indians and United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, would appoint a liaison to the US Mint. Also, the denomination text '$1' was added to the reverse. Each year, a new design would be depicted on the reverse of the coin, although the original portrait of Sacagawea would remain as the common design on the obverse of the coin throughout the series. The new coin series would be known as the Native American Dollar Coins. The One Dollar Horse is certain to be huge favourite with readers and will bear comparison with classic horse stories by authors such as Patricia Leitch and K M Peyton.An example of the lettered edge on the Sacagawea Native American Dollar Coin, produced from 2009 through the present. The supporting cast of adults are equally interesting and unusual too: Casey’s ex con dad, who is tricked into a terrible betrayal of his daughter Mrs Smith, her eccentric benefactor only love interest the blacksmith Peter feels a little wooden, but then how can any mere mortal boy compete in the romance stakes with the glorious Storm! Her relationship with Storm is finely observed and described and readers will lap up the tips on horse lore and care, as we watch them gradually learning to trust each other. Casey is a believable teenager, as stubborn and reckless as her horse. Lauren St John invests the story with a pace and a passion that prevents it from ever seeming formulaic. Despite the hardships they face Casey and the renamed Storm Warning will go to the ball – or in this case, the Badminton horse trials! Using the dollar bill they had just found in the gutter Casey and her father buy the horse, and she sets about nursing him back to strength.

This is Silver Cyclone and he’s on his way to the knackers. Walking home one evening with her father, a crazed horse leaps out of nowhere, nearly crushing her. Of course, as we know very well, in the best pony stories those kind of things absolutely do happen.Ĭasey lives in inner-city Hackney and helps out at the shabby riding school nearby.

‘More than anything on earth I’d love to be flying over mad jumps on a horse with wings and competing against the world’s greatest riders, but those kind of things never happen to girls like me.’ So says heroine Casey Blue at the beginning of Lauren St John’s hugely enjoyable horse story.

The One Dollar Horse Author: Lauren St John

The one dollar horse series