Brighty of the Grand Canyon, by Marguerite Henry
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Brighty was a real live burro who lived in the Grand Canyon. He is believed to have been brought from Flagstaf Arizona down to the Colorado River in the bottom of the Grand Canyon in 1890-1892. Whomever brought him there is believed to have drowned in the Colorado River. That persons body was never found. After that, Brighty spent the next thirty years as essentially an independent contractor. He would carry loads and passengers up and down the Bright Angel Trail in return for food. Nobody ever owned him. If the payment he received in food was not satisfactory, he would just leave and go to work for somebody else. Brighty was given his name by a prospector who found him after his original owners had died. Brighty became famous when US President Theodore Roosevelt used him to hunt mountain lions. An old prospector living in the canyon found the burro running wild along Bright Angle Creek and named him Brighty and held him not with ropes but with friendship. When the prospector mysteriously died, Brighty once again roamed free. On his trips up and down the canyon wall he hobnobbed with map-makers, artists and geologists and soon they were following his trail from rim to river.
Brighty of the Grand Canyon, by Marguerite Henry- Amazon Sales Rank: #134608 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .53" w x 6.00" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 232 pages
About the Author The author of this book, Marguerite Henry, was born Marguerite Breithaupt on April 13, 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She wrote more than 50 books. Almost all of her books were about animals, especially about horses. Misty of Chincoteague is her most famous story, as it has been made into a movie and possibly will be made into a TV series. Her second most famous story is Brighty of the Grand Canyon about a real-live burro who for thirty years carried passengers up and down the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the Colorado River. Marguerite Henry was married to Sidney Crocker Henry. They had no children. She died in on November 26, 1997 in Rancho Santa Fe in California at the age of 95. Her books were mostly illustrated by Wesley Dennis. She wanted the best horse artist in the world to illustrate it, so she went to the library, studied the horse books and selected and sent her manuscript to Wesley Dennis. John Wesley Dennis was born May 16, 1903 in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He decided to make his living drawing horses. Dennis began by sketching racetrack winners, hoping to receive portrait commissions from the owners. He decided to further his education and traveled to France to study with an artist who an expert on horse anatomy. He illustrated more than 150 books. Most of his books were books about horses. John Wesley Dennis had a special arrangement with Marguerite Henry where she paid him a part of her royalty checks. He really worked for her, not for the publisher. He died on September 3, 1966 at age 63 in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the same place where he had been born.
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71 of 76 people found the following review helpful. The real Brighty and Bobby McKee By A Customer My father and grand parents started the Wylie Way camp at the North Rim in 1916. The Summer of 1918 was when Brighty became their water carrier and my father and Brighty made several trips a day to a water source 200ft. below the rim. The camp was about 100yds North West from the current Grand Canyon Lodge and held up to 100 people per night at it's capacity. My Grandmother did all of the accounting and was basically in charge of the people and the kitchen, including the ordering of food, cooking and purchases from Z.C.M.I. It was a pioneering effort, to say the least. Dad's encounters with Brighty have become synonymous with early life at the North Rim. Grandfather wrote an article on Brighty for Sunset Magazine and Marguerite Henry based her book on this article. The book is fiction but has some true things such as Brighty crossing the Bridge first and being independant. I'm not sure if Brighty actually was used by Roosevelt but another Burro was used and his name was Ted. Dad used Ted his first summer at the camp. Ted was stubborn so the following summer Brighty was given them by Uncle Jim Owen who had used Brighty off and on in his cougar hunting adventures. Owen was a resident expert who worked for the government culling the cougar population and raising cattle and buffalo. Thanks. M. Krueger
28 of 31 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Book By A Customer This great book I read when I was 6,7,8,& 9, but I still remember how great it was. This book was written by a great author, Marguerite Henry. She always wrote Realistic Fiction about horses. Even if you're not a horse lover, you would love these. In Brighty of the Grand Canyon, a donkey named Brighty lives with an old man that lives in the Grand Canyon. One night a "bad guy" comes and meets the two friends. The old man thinks he is really friendly, so he lets him stay the night. Before they went to bed, the old man tells the other too much information and that night, the other man kills him. Brighty knew when he first laid eyes on him, he could tell he was up to no good. As the story goes on, the man runs away and Brighty tries to get him in jail. Brighty goes through many tough challenges and exciting times. Brighty fights with other animals, plays with children, gets sick, and gets trapped with the man and a young boy. I'm not going to give away the end, but not very many people have even heard of Marguerite Henry, so if you think you will enjoy this book from my review, please do so. I admired Marguerite Henry for how well she wrote her stories and how her imagination worked. Sadly, she died in 1998. Once again, I hope you will enjoy the book if you decide to read it.
17 of 19 people found the following review helpful. His Free Spirit Haunts the Canyon By Plume45 Set in the Grand Canyon during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency this charming tale introduces readers to an unlikely animal protagonist: a wild burro who lives alone, but has been partially tamed by kind men. Rescued first by the Old Timer, then from a cougar's wounds by the North Rim's resident lion-killer, Brighty experiences the gamut of human behavior toward animals and each other: from the absurd, the selfish, the ambitious, and even the criminal. As the only witness to the evil schemes of a thieving murderer, Brighty relies on his own natural instincts which warn him about vicious Jake Irons. Ruthless Irons murders the kindly and trusting prospector in order to obtain his copper mine. The sheriff frets for several years that the heinous crime goes unsolved and that the murderer remains unpunished. But Uncle Jimmy Owens' moon-lily tea helps trick a confession from the cruel scoundrel-with Brighty as a non-verbal but wary witness. Even in his lonely pilgrimages down to Bright Angel Creek the burro has many adventures on his own; he even crosses the Colorado River twice on a bridge which he helped men construct. Will he one day prefer to livewith his own kind as king of the herd? Or Be satisfied to be honored and befriended by human beings? Teddy Roosevelt looms larger than life as his personality is interwoven with Marguerite Henry's fictitious characters. For it was this charismatic president who devoted his efforts to setting aside the wilds of the Grand Canyon in the form of a national park. Readers rejoice at Brighty's free spirit, which is said to prance through the gorges and trails which he cut en route to his beloved North Rim. This gentle burro epitomizes the youth and vigor of the primeval canyon-showing how humans and animals should cooperate to preserve America's natural wilderness. Delightfully illustrated by Wesley Dennis, this book is for outdoors enthusiasts and animal lovers of all ages.
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