Appaloosa Duke is a horse story about bullying. Duke tells of his own life having to deal with stress and sadness at being bullied and teased from the time he was a foal in Idaho to being trained as a trail horse at a dude ranch in Wapiti Valley, Wyoming. Other horses could never see beyond his unusual dotted/spotted coat pattern and treated him harshly. Duke befriends a gimpy, arthritic horse named Boots and helps save his life and that of another old horse by standing up to a bear in their defense. Will the other herd horses scoff at his actions and consider him foolhardy...