Wyoming looms large in O’Hara’s musical output.
O’Hara moved back east and settled in Maryland for the rest of her life. This ranch and her experiences there form the not-so-well-disguised background and characters in the Wyoming trilogy of My Friend Flicka, Thunderhead, and Green Grass of Wyoming, which were written while living there in the 1940’s. Marriage again uprooted her, and she moved to Wyoming with husband #2, a man who had worked with horses in the Army. They divorced, and she stayed on and worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1920’s. She married a third cousin (against her father’s wishes) and moved with him to California at the start of the 20th century. O’Hara (1885-1980) lived a varied life! Born into a family descended from William Penn, O’Hara grew up as a minister’s daughter in Brooklyn Heights, NY. Mary O’Hara, author of this trilogy and other books, is also Mary O’Hara, pianist and composer. Having been a horse-obsessed young girl, it astonishes me that I had never read one of the most famous “horse” books ever, My Friend Flicka-until now.
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