Prologue: unexpected kindness
Horse crazy: girls and the lives of horses
U.S. horse history from colonization to recreation: working for men, playing with girls
Dreaming of horses: the pony book genre and other horse stories in the mid-twentieth century
The past that is still present: stories from my riding life in the western United States, 1970s to 1990s
Ways of thinking about normal in the United States: horse-crazy (white) girls in the late twentieth century
Horsey girls: heteronormativity and otherness
Horses: life, death, and rescue
Epilogue: the boys who love ponies.