Here in a new, colorful edition is Virginia Lee Burton's inspired saga of the super intelligent cow horse, Calico, and her battle with that worst of double-dyed villains, Stewy Stinker. Boys and girls will be delighted with this exciting tale, for it is made up in comic-strip form — easy to read and look at, but with the inimitable Burton touch.

The story is a real western drama, with cattle rustling, a kidnapping, a stampede, a holdup and a thrilling chase down a mountain. Each time Calico ** and outsmarts Stewy from the start to the hang-up ending. There is plenty of humor, too, for Stewy Stinker's crew of menacing bad men are a highly comical lot.

The trouble all started when Stewy Stinker stole the cattle belonging to the peaceful inhabitants of Cactus County. He might have gotten away with them scot-free except for the keen wits and the long, sensitive nose of Calico, the wonder horse. Through a riotous yarn and wonderful action-packed pictures she tracks him down to a thrilling climax.

From the dust jacket of the 1950 Revised Editiion