Ernest Joseph "Ern" Pedler (May 31, 1914 – November 17, 1989) was a writer whose work was based on his experiences as a distance-riding horseman and wild horse-chasing cowboy.
[2] George B. Russell's classic Hoofprints in Time, includes a lengthy segment about Pedler and his Morgan stallion Flying Jubilee.
[4] His writing is not as well known as that of James and Green because almost all of his stories and articles were published in a national magazine with a readership of only a few thousand, The Morgan Horse, (“TMH”).
His obituary's only words regarding what he did in life are: “He was a horseman, and he rode good horses.”[7] “He could find his way over a knoll pocked with badger holes and scarcely miss a stride, and he could jump a double wash on a run, lighting on the fin between like a cat on a fence.” (Pedler's quote about his Flying Jubilee stallion in George B. Russell's Hoofprints in Time, A.S. Barnes & Co., NY, 1966.)
“Nothing takes the eagerness out of a mustanging horse like a few hard runs without a catch.” (From “Decay of Age,” TMH, March, 1960, p. 39) “The buckskin stayed behind those ponies all the way, forcing their lead, outguessing them, and outrunning them in their own land.” (About his horse Buck in The Big Lonely Horse, Eusey Press, Leominister, 1960, p. 19) “I wonder how people jammed into the big cities find any real happiness or solitude where they can’t see a mountain, or hear a clear stream, or feel the comfort of a good saddle, and I suppose they think people like me are a little cracked.” (From the preface to “The Silver-tipped Mustang,” TMH, November, 1952 p. 6) “Flying Jubilee is dead, and some of me went with him.” (The closing words of Pedler's report on the passing of Flying Jubilee, “Flying Jubilee Is Dead,” TMH, June, 1966, p. 61)