![]() ![]() Old men, thought Carl Lee.īut Carl Lee was anxious to prove himself. And that was an exception most folks didn’t ride until they were fifteen years old. But each year Gray said he was too young, too inexperienced. He had wanted to ride in the Boley Rodeo for as long as he could remember. With the same lyrical intensity that distinguished her American Book Award winner, Marked by Fire, Joyce Carol Thomas expands upon the story of a community, and brings to life the extraordinary essence of everyday people.Ĭarl Lee especially enjoyed hearing about the black cowboys and the Boley Rodeo. ![]() Then one magnificent horse and the legend of another rose out of the past to bind man to man and father to son. There was a boy and his father and his grandfather, and they were divided by a generation of anger. "A mountain's a task you fix for your spirit, a wild horse the challenge to your soul." ![]()
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