The Horse with the Golden Mane is a collection of three long stories.
"Eric" - Sol Goodkin was freed from a Nazi death camp and came to America to escape violence. Mysteriously a Doberman pinscher appears in this rear yard, hungry and blood stained. Sol finds himself befriending the very breed of dog used by the Germans to hunt and attack Jewish prisoners.
"Taj" - The bond between man and animal comes to full fruition when Grant Larsen purses his horse, Taj, to prevent him from being destroyed. In the process he learns about the misery of a crippled child and mends a broken relationship with his daughter. Will Grant find his horse?
"The Horse with the Golden Mane" - A man's desperate love for his wife leads him into a strange bond with an unruly and abused horse. In rescuing the animal, he also is rescuing himself, but a strange twist of fate and the man's uncanny relationship with the horse, parallel a search for his wife that will baffle and astonish the reader.