[RegulatorCountry]

You’d likely enjoy Black Bess and the ride of Betsy Dowdy then. It’s generally not held to be fictional though.

http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/05/betsy-dowdy.html

[Aliska]

Thank you! I read on wiki about the horses; the books were novels which were based on actual people, horses and locations. It's fascinating reading. The horses were adopted by the orphaned Beebe children who lived with their grandparents on their ranch by the same name. The 3 children died tragically, main character in a car accident, brother within months, sister a couple years later, and Misty 12 years after that leaving many descendants.

Brought tears to my eyes. And in one section, wiki tells about a foundation raising money to replenish horses lost on Assateague, an island off the coast of Virginia, that were lost in a bad storm. I guess that's where the name of the Stormy book came from.

So some of the wild horses are casualties of storms. There's another large island in the north Atlantic where there many shipwrecks and wild horses. It has been inhabitated off and on, don't know if any people remain now. I got most of my information from one of Edward Rowe Snow's account, can't remember which book or the island's name.