As a children's librarian I read children's literature to elderly
residents of a retirement home.  One of my listeners wants very much
to find out the name of a book she was read as an elementary school
student in the early part of the 20th century.  The book may be from
around the turn of the century OR older than that.  These are the
sketchy clues:
There is a girl named Bushy in the book.  Or something that she
remembers as "Bushy."  Bushy rides through the meadow or forest or
town on a horse.  There is snowfall that is higher than the head of
the horse.
I'd like to please this very special patron with the name of this book
or story.

This is a tough one, with very little info to go on.

I didn't find a story that matched this description exactly. However,
I worked on a hunch that your firend may have confused two stories. A
children's author named Andrew Lang wrote many fairy tale books around
the last turn of the century.

One of his stories is called "Bushy Bride" and appears in his "Red
Dairy Tale Book." (He wrote many books, organized by color.) You can
read that story here:

http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.3/bookid.924/sec.32/

He wrote many stories, and many of them have horses, meadows, very
high snow, etc. You can read a biography of Andrew Lang here:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~crumey/andrew_lang.html

I hope this helps your search.

a_butler-ga

Hi there,

I was hoping we could find this book for you but the only thing I
turned up had to do with the adventures of a kitty cat with a bushy
tail.  The deep snow reference intrigued me, though, as the story
takes place in Norway and was a popular children's book published in
1912.  Just thought I'd mention it as shot in the dark.

http://www.swissskogkatt.ch/en/n_geschichte.asp

{quote}
Besides Asbjørnsen and Moe, another author who helped the Forest Cat
to fame was the Norwegian Gabriel Scott, who, in 1912, published a
children's book about the adventures of a Forest Cat named "Sølvfaks".
In Germany, Sølvfaks had a new career under the name "Silberpelz"
("Silver Fur").
{/quote}

Google search terms:

children's story+deep snow+bushy

Fingers crossed finding your book.  Your patrons are very lucky to
have you!
V

Thank you so much for the great links - they will be helpful to me.  I
printed out the story of the Bushy Bride and I will take it with me
this week to my reading - perhaps you have the right hunch!  I'll let
you know.

I remember reading in one of the Reader's Digest condensed books
collection, about...
- a maid who is to marry a person she doesn't like
- her meeting with a young, impressionable priest who is to take her
to the place of her marriage
- their getting lost in the snow
- their going through the forest in 'ride-and-tie' fashion - i.e., the
priest rides for a while, ties up the horse to a suitable tree, and
walks on... the maid reaches the horse, rides it, passes the priest,
rides on, ties it to a tree, ... you get the idea.
- at nightfall and still somewhere in the great forest (this is at
christmas), they come upon a small lean-to sort of house where they
'bundle up' (now i remember, this is supposed to be a canadian method,
used by young people when they're courting - saves fuel, allows them
to cuddle, and is safe because it's done with all clothes on...
- right, they've lost the horse before they find the lean-to, and the
horse finds them...
- somewhere during the bundling-up, they realize that they've somehow
fallen in love with each other (and they'll need to explain the
bundling-up, too), so they decide to get married.

i'm at work right now, and do not have access to the actual story -
will probably post back tomorrow with a proper reply, including title,
author, publication year, etc...

have a nice time!

ps: title may be "the wedding gift" or an equivalent, about a tinder
box that holds matches...

One of the book in "My Antonia" (published 1918)
contains a character called "Mr Bushy".

This, loosly, has the elements mentioned. :-)