"The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse" is a short story by William Saroyan, published within the collection My Name is Aram.
“The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse” is narrated by a nine-year-old Armenian boy named Aram, a member of the Garoghlanian tribe, living among the lush fruit orchards and vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley in California.
However, despite being poor, the Garoghlanian tribe is noted for its honesty and trust, as a result, it is unthinkable that Mourad would have stolen the horse.
Mourad's crazy behaviour was considered to be of natural descent from their uncle Khosrove, even though his father, Zorab, was a practical man.
After half an hour they found the horse and hid it in the barn of a deserted vineyard of a farmer named Fetvajian which had once been his pride.
He reported to Aram's mother that his white horse which had been stolen a month ago was still missing.
Two weeks later, when they were going to take the horse back to its hiding place, they met John Byro on the road.
He recognized his horse but refused to believe that the boys had stolen it due to their tribe's fame for being honest and truthful.