Download or read book Draught horse pioneers written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heavy Horses written by Grant MacEwan and published by Calgary : Fifth House Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, e, i, s.
Download or read book Pioneers Equine and Otherwise written by Amy Freeman Lee and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Galloping Across the U S A written by Martin W. Sandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galloping Across America shows how Mustangs, Arabians, Palominos, Morgans, and other kinds of horses played a central role in the development of the United States as a nation. From transportation within cities -- the omnibus, fire wagons, delivery of goods -- to mail delivery from coast to coast to tilling soil and herding cattle, Martin Sandler shows how essential the horse was for the survival of four million citizens stretched across 800,000 square miles. As roads improved, stagecoaches became popular for crossing the country. Covered wagons delivered pioneers into the western regions for homesteading. And Native American culture changed significantly as wealth and social standing within tribes began to be measured by the number of horses each man owned. Galloping Across America is a fascinating look at the horse-powered development of America up through the rodeos and mounted police of today. Filled with the spirit of adventure, competition, and restlessness central to the American character, the Transportation in America series reveals how the horse, trolley, ship, railroad, automobile, and airplane transformed the country. Each volume is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, drawings, posters, timetables, sheet music covers, and original documents -- many of which have never been published before -- and includes fascinating sidebars on the colorful characters and technology behind the transport.
Download or read book Horse Power and Magic written by George Ewart Evans and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering oral historian, George Ewart Evans, began to record the farming ways of East Anglia in the 1950s by listening to old men and women whose memories went back more than fifty or sixty years. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. It was assumed at that time that horses would soon disappear from the farms, and that this was the last chance of recording the part they had played for centuries. It later became clear that this forecast was too pessimistic and in Horse Power and Magic (Faber, 1979) Ewart Evans describes in fascinating detail some important farms where horses continued to be beneficially used more than thirty years later. He discovered that the traditions of the older horsemen had not died out but had been passed on, in only slightly attenuated form, to a younger generation keen to farm with horses, proving that the day of the heavy horse was by no means over. He also describes vividly the ways of horse-tamers whose skills had a touch of 'magic' about them. 'Taking his works a whole, there is no doubt that George Ewart Evans will survive as a fascinating pioneer of the extra-academic recording of human history...he has found a dimension all his own. This is indeed the very stuff of history.' Sunday Times
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new American journey.
Download or read book Draft Horses Today written by Robert A. Mischka and published by Mischka Press/Heart Prairie. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Battalions in the Great War written by K. W. Mitchinson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneer battalions, created as an expedient in 1914, were a new concept in the British Army. Intended to provide the Royal Engineers, with skilled labour and to relieve the infantry from some of its non-combatant duties, Pioneers became the work horses of the Expedentiary Forces. The Coldstream Guards and over three dozen Country regiments, each created at least one pioneer battalion. Several New Army battalions were raised specifically as Pioneers, while others were converted Territorials or Kitchener units formed originally as conventional infantry. Adopting a badge of a cross rifle and pick, these battalions wired, dug and reverted in all weathers and in all terrain. On many occasions they abandoned their working tools and fought alongside the infantry in repelling enemy attacks. In their efforts to stem the German offensives of 1918, several Pioneer units fought themselves to virtual annihilation. Often confused with the Pioneer Corps of the Second World War, the work of the Pioneer battalions has been largely ignored or misunderstood. Far from being the units of the ages and inform, these sixty-eight battalions played a major role in the Allied victory. Pioneer Battalions in the Great War traces the reasons behind the creation of these units, the work they performed and the dramatic transitions many of them had to undergo. It also examines how and why Pioneers have never received the recognition they deserve.
Download or read book Diary of Sarah Gillespie written by Sarah Gillespie and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve year old Sarah Gillespie and her family struggled to make a life for themselves on the Great Plains. Crops and animals needed constant care. Neighbors depended on one another for survival. Through it all, Sarah wrote down her experiences in a diary. Read her story, and learn about the American frontier from someone who lived on it.
Download or read book The Horse Interlude written by Thomas B. Keith and published by Idaho Research Foundation. This book was released on 1976 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horse Interlude presents a pictorial history of the role horses played in the wheat farming operations of the Pacific Northwest, concentrating on the geographical area located along the Snake River in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. In it Thomas B. Keith surveys the period from the mid-1850s to the 1930s, during which technological innovations progressively enabled farmers to improve the efficiency of wheat farming operations, beginning with the replacement of the cradle and flail by the horse, and ending when the horse was in its turn supplanted by the self-propelled combine. Detailed photographs of horse-drawn equipment illustrate the ways in which the use of horses changed during three successive periods of agricultural history: the pioneer settlement of the area, the inauguration of large-scale farming, and the attainment of mechanization. Other sections of the book relate the histories of threshers, headers, and horse-propelled harvesters, while the conclusion recounts the accomplishments of the Northwest's greatest riders. In telling the story of the "horse interlude," Keith draws the reader back to a time of rapid growth and change, a time created by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the early wheat farmers of the Pacific Northwest and their hard-working partners, the horses.
Download or read book From the Horse s Mouth written by Joy E. Rainey and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horses at Work written by J. Lou Barnes and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of partnerships between horses and humans since domestication during ancient times, detailing the use of equines in agricultural labor, as wartime and police mounts, for entertainment, and in the world of competition.
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Download or read book National Register of French Draft Horses written by National French Draft Horse Association and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History: v. 1, p. 7-143.
Download or read book America s Horses written by Moira C. Harris and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history and characteristics of each of the two dozen horse breeds that originated in the United States, and includes photographs and notes on celebrity riders and horses within the breeds, as well as listings of breed associations and American equestrian organizations.
Download or read book Clydesdale Stud Book written by Clydesdale Horse Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
