- First published
- 1967
- Editions
- 2 editions
- Status
- In print
Buford the Little Bighorn
A little bighorn sheep is born with horns so enormous they trip him up on the mountain, so he flees to the flatland, where new dangers and a surprising talent await him.
"There's no doubt," grumbled the little ram, "but that these horns will be my downfall. One of these days they'll cause me to stumble and off the mountain I'll go." And sure enough the horns did cause him to stumble and he toppled off a ledge to go tumbling down the mountainside.
Bill Peet explained the book's simple beginnings in an interview: "I made a drawing of a little mountain sheep with overgrown horns. They grew all the way around his back and they curled all the way down past his hind legs and all the way up past his front legs under his chin. Well, that's all I had to begin with. Just like Huge Harold, what are his problems?" Buford could not keep up with the other sheep, so he went down to live in the flatland, only to find that hunters were a new danger there.
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