The author, Patricia Probert Gott, is the daughter of Alice Kenoyer Probert, who was the fifth child of the ten Kenoyer children. Ms. Gott resides in rural Maine where she retired from business and now rides and trains her Arabian horses and writes cowgirl and children's horse books in between traveling the globe. This is her ninth book. You may email her at pgott@gwi.net or view her web site at www.prgottbooks.net