Mary O'Hara

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Mary O'Hara Alsop was born in Cape May Point NJ, the third child of a Reverend and his wife. She was raised in Brooklyn Heights, New York. In 1905 she married her third cousin, Kent Kane Parrot, with whom she had two children, the first of which died of skin cancer in her early teens. She divorced Parrot and went to work as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1920s. In In 1922 she married Helge Sture-Vasa and moved with him to Wyoming. In 1930 they bought a ranch, which they renamed Remount Ranch, and stocked it with sheep. The Great Depression ended the profitability of sheep and the couple managed to get by by delivering milk in Cheyenne and breeding horses, and on O'Hara's writing income. She wrote mainly Wyoming ranch stories, and is best known for *My Friend Flicka* (1941), *Thunderhead* (1943), and *Green Grass of Wyoming* (1946). In 1946 O'Hara and her husband sold the ranch and purchased one in California. The following year they divorced, and O'Hara moved to Monroe CT where she continued to write. In 1968 she moved to Chevy Chase MD, where she lived until she died of arteriosclerosis.

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My friend Flicka
Representative edition published 2006
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My Friend Flicka
Representative edition published 2005
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My Friend Flicka
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Girl In Information Technology
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Thunderhead
Representative edition published 2005
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Green Grass of Wyoming (Egmont Classics)
Representative edition published 2004
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My Friend Flicka (Egmont Classics)
Representative edition published 2004
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Thunderhead (Egmont Classics)
Representative edition published 2004
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My Friend Flicka Book and Charm (Charming Classics)
Representative edition published 2003
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Le Fils de Flicka
Representative edition published 1999
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Le Ranch De Flicka
Representative edition published 1997
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Mon Amie Flicka
Representative edition published 1997
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Thunderhead
Representative edition published 1995
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The devil enters by a north window
Representative edition published 1990
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Green Grass of Wyoming
Representative edition published 1989
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Responsibilities
Representative edition published 1989
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My Friend Flicka, The Apprentice, Old Ben
Representative edition published 1989
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Celebration of Love
Representative edition published 1989
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Song for Ireland
Representative edition published 1985
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The catch colt
Representative edition published 1985
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The Scent of the Roses
Representative edition published 1983
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Flicka's Friend
Representative edition published 1982
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Flicka's friend
Representative edition published 1982
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Reader's Digest best loved books for young readers--Volume Three
Representative edition published 1966
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