![]() ![]() ![]() Misty’s great-great-granddaughter Morning Glory is trailered into the downtown twice a week in the afternoons. The center carts her descendants into the downtown for tourists to feed and pet. Today Misty’s descendants still live in captivity at the Pony Center, the Beebe ranch is long gone. It is thus that Misty’s descendants continued to live in Chincoteague, but in captivity rather than as part of the feral herd of Assateague Island. After the book tour, Henry returned with Misty to Chincoteague where she was able to birth her first foal, Stormy. Beebe relented, and Misty not only became Henry’s muse, but book tour companion as well. ![]() Henry met Misty at the Beebe ranch and begged Mr. Marguerite Henry did use the real names of Misty and her mother Phantom, as well as the very real traditions of the annual pony penning and auction. She was born in captivity at the Beebe ranch to two horses that also lived in captivity. Misty of Chincoteague was never part of the wild herd of Chincoteague Ponies. The truth about Misty of Chincoteague is… ![]()
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