Books on How Horses Shaped America???
I am doing a research paper on this topic and am having a tough time finding information on it, even though I know that horses have played a HUGE part making america what it is today. Any suggestions?
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CONQUERORS – The Roots of New World Horsemanship by Deb Bennett
The Book of Draft Horses – The Gentle Giants that Built the World by Donna Campbell Smith
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr
The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains, A Study of Cultural Development among North American Indians by Preston Holder
When Horses Walked on Water: Horse-Powered Ferries in Nineteenth-Century America by Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn.
and for some first-hand perspective, you might try Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails by Joe Back.
Websites:
“The Horse in Human History” http://mysite.verizon.net/mmaidens/
Some photos and a bit of information:
http://www.kingdomofhorses.com/history1.html
Cavalry history: http://www.uscavalryschool.org/cavalry_history.htm
http://www.uscavalry.org/cavlibrary.html
Horses in WW1:
http://www.geocities.com/blewholt/wwihorse.html
Hope this helps! (Sounds like a great topic!)
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