Mary O'Hara (author)

Mary O'Hara Alsop (July 10, 1885 – October 14, 1980) was an American author, screenwriter, pianist, and composer best known for the novel My Friend Flicka.

In 1961, she performed her folk musical composition The Catch Colt at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. She was the author of several books including Let Us Say Grace (1930), My Friend Flicka (1941), and Novel-in-the-Making (1954).

In 1922 she married Helge Sture-Vasa, a Swede who had experience working horses in the U.S. Army Remount Service, and they moved to Wyoming.

The books were so popular that they have been translated in many languages such as: Arabic, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Cambodian, Burmese, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Japanese and Korean.

The following year Mary O'Hara divorced her second husband, and returned alone to the Eastern U.S., settling in Monroe, Connecticut, where she continued to write fiction and non-fiction.

She composed a folk musical, "The Catch Colt," which was performed in 1961 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and at the Lincoln Theatre in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The room on the Remount Ranch outside Cheyenne, Wyoming where Mary O'Hara wrote "My Friend Flicka" was made into a "bar room" around 1946.
A rocky, pine-covered ridge runs through the center of the Remount Ranch in Southeastern Wyoming where Mary O'Hara lived for 11 years. [ 1 ] The ranch is located on the eastern slope of the Laramie Mountains at more than 7,500 in elevation.