A short story adapted from Chapter 5 of Riding Freedom appeared in the February/ March 2000 issue of Storyworks magazine.

In 2001, a Spanish edition of Riding Freedom, Un caballo llamado libertad, translated by Nuria Molinero, was published.

Books by other authors present similar themes, plots, and characters. A nineteenthcentury California woman disguises herself as a man to obtain her goals in Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary (2000), by Wendelin Van Draanen. Holly Hughes, Hoofbeats of Danger (1999) is an American Girl mystery featuring the pony express. In Margaret Peterson Haddix's Running Out of Time (1995), Jessie is worried about the diphtheria epidemic in her 1840s village and is stunned to learn that her community is actually a living history tourist site where authorities have ordered victims not to receive medical care. Jessie escapes for help and, like Charlotte assuming a new role, pretends to be familiar...