Pony
book author Mary O’Hara (1885 - 1980)
Mary O’Hara was born in 1885 in New Jersey. She travelled
widely in Europe with her grandmother, studied harmony and composition
in London and went to an English boarding school in Italy. After her
first marriage, she moved to California, where she became a
screen-writer, and had a son and a daughter. Her daughter sadly died
young of cancer. Mary married again in 1922, and this time moved to
Wyoming. It was here that she wrote her ranch novels: My Friend Flicka, The Green Grass of Wyoming
and Thunderhead.
Wyoming PBS: Mary O'Hara wrote My Friend Flika
Mary O'Hara wrote "My Friend Flika", and garnered international acclaim
for her books about the people and horses that lived on a Wyoming
Ranch. She was an accomplished musician who composed all of the music
that you will hear in the program. But O'Hara was first, and always, a
writer. Enjoy the unexpected treasure in that Wyoming Ranch - You can
view "She Wrote My Friend Flika" at this web
address.
1948 Green Grass of Wyoming
Big harness race scene from the 1948 western drama film of this name by
Mary O'Hara.
The Redhead From Wyoming: Maureen O'Hara (1952)
In Wyoming Territory, a range war is brewing between entrenched cattle
barons and new settlers. Maureen O'Hara plays saloon queen Kate Maxwell.
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