The Horse in America
by John Gilmer Speed
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About this eBook
- Author
- John Gilmer Speed
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- Subject
- Horses
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 54716
- Release Date
- May 13, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Horse IN AMERICA A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE VARIOUS TYPES COMMON IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH SOMETHING OF THEIR HISTORY AND VARYING CHARACTERISTICS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTION
- 4.CHAPTER ONE PREHISTORIC AND EARLY HORSES
- 5.CHAPTER TWO ARAB AND BARB HORSES
- 6.CHAPTER THREE THE THOROUGHBRED IN AMERICA
- 7.CHAPTER FOUR THE MORGAN HORSE
- 8.CHAPTER FIVE MESSENGER AND THE EARLY TROTTERS
- 9.CHAPTER SIX RYSDYK’S HAMBLETONIAN AND THE STANDARD BRED TROTTERS — “ The Trotting Standard — “ The Pacing Standard
- 10.CHAPTER SEVEN THE CLAY AND CLAY-ARABIAN
- 11.CHAPTER EIGHT THE DENMARK, OR KENTUCKY SADDLE-HORSE
- 12.CHAPTER NINE THE GOVERNMENT AS A BREEDER
- 13.CHAPTER TEN FOREIGN HORSES OF VARIOUS KINDS
- 14.CHAPTER ELEVEN THE BREEDING OF MULES
- 15.CHAPTER TWELVE HOW TO BUY A HORSE
- 16.CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE STABLE AND ITS MANAGEMENT
- 17.CHAPTER FOURTEEN RIDING AND DRIVING
- 18.CHAPTER FIFTEEN TRAINING VS. BREAKING
- 19.CHAPTER SIXTEEN CONFORMATION AND ACTION
- 20.INDEX
- 21.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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