Here is an unforgettable story for boys and girls in a new and unusual setting—the little-known islands of Chincoteague and Assateague, just off the shores of Virginia. On Chincoteague live men, but on Assateague, "the isle of wild things," live the only wild ponies descended, legend says, from the survivors of a Spanish galleon wrecked there long ago. 

MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE tells of two of these freedom-loving ponies—a strangely beautiful mare and her little colt, Misty—and of Paul and his sister Maureen, who had set their hearts on owning them. How Paul and Maureen help to capture the Phantom and Misty and then almost lose them—how they astonish the islanders by taming the untamable wild mare—and how they win their final triumph on Pony Penning Day—makes a story that is swift-moving and vividly real. 

From the dust jacket