Download or read book Ghost Riders written by Mark Felton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered . . . As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over a thousand horses, including the entire herd of white Lipizzaner's from Vienna's Spanish Riding School, as well as Europe's finest Arabian stallions -- stolen to create an equine "master race." The horses are worth millions and, if the starving Red Army reaches the stables first, they will kill the horses for rations. The Americans, under the command of General George Patton, whose love of horses was legendary, decide to help the Germans save the majestic creatures. So begins "Operation Cowboy," as GIs join forces with surrendered German soldiers and liberated prisoners of war to save the world's finest horses from fanatical SS soldiers and the ruthless Red Army in an extraordinary battle during the last few days of the war in Europe. This is an epic untold story from the waning days of World War II. Drawing from newly unearthed archival material, family archives held by descendants of the participants, and interviews with many of the participants published throughout the years, Ghost Riders is the definitive account of this truly unprecedented and moving story of kindness and compassion at the close of humanity's darkest hour.
Download or read book The Carriage Journal written by Thomas Ryder and published by Carriage Assoc. of America. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title page The View From the Box They're Off-Chuckwagons Hit the Track I The Invention of Carriage Springs .. Bertram W. Mills Haflingers-The "Banty Belgians" All's Well That Doesn't End in a Well Three Generations of Coachbuilders The Netherlands Equestrian Center The Castle Museum, York, England · · · · · · · · · The North American Carriage Driving Championships The Sporting Break Postillion-1987 · · · · · · .. The "Sir Walter Scott" Charity Coach Run 1987 . Driving as a Subject for Artists Memories-Mostly Horsy Questions & Answers On Dishing and Staggering .. Hints for Restorers The Carriage Trade . Book Review Advertising
Download or read book Black Cowboy Wild Horses written by Julius Lester and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Lemmons is famous for his ability to track wild horses. He rides his horse, Warrior, picks up the trail of mustangs, then runs with them day and night until they accept his presence. Bob and Warrior must then challenge the stallion for leadership of the wild herd. A victorious Bob leads the mustangs across the wide plains and for one last spectacular run before guiding them into the corral. Bob's job is done, but he dreams of galloping with Warrior forever to where the sky and land meet. This splendid collaboration by an award-winning team captures the beauty and harshness of the frontier, a boundless arena for the struggle between freedom and survival. Based on accounts of Bob Lemmons, a formerly enslaved person, Black Cowboy, Wild Horses has been rewritten as a picture book by Julius Lester from his story "The Man Who Was a Horse" in Long Journey Home, first published by Dial in 1972.
Download or read book A Texas Cow boy written by Charles A Siringo and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Up the Trail written by Tim Lehman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did cattle drives come about—and why did the cowboy become an iconic American hero? Cattle drives were the largest, longest, and ultimately the last of the great forced animal migrations in human history. Spilling out of Texas, they spread longhorns, cowboys, and the culture that roped the two together throughout the American West. In cities like Abilene, Dodge City, and Wichita, buyers paid off ranchers, ranchers paid off wranglers, and railroad lines took the cattle east to the packing plants of St. Louis and Chicago. The cattle drives of our imagination are filled with colorful cowboys prodding and coaxing a line of bellowing animals along a dusty path through the wilderness. These sturdy cowhands always triumph over stampedes, swollen rivers, and bloodthirsty Indians to deliver their mighty-horned companions to market—but Tim Lehman’s Up the Trail reveals that the gritty reality was vastly different. Far from being rugged individualists, the actual cow herders were itinerant laborers—a proletariat on horseback who connected cattle from the remote prairies of Texas with the nation’s industrial slaughterhouses. Lehman demystifies the cowboy life by describing the origins of the cattle drive and the extensive planning, complicated logistics, great skill, and good luck essential to getting the cows to market. He reveals how drives figured into the larger story of postwar economic development and traces the complex effects the cattle business had on the environment. He also explores how the premodern cowboy became a national hero who personified the manly virtues of rugged individualism and personal independence. Grounded in primary sources, this absorbing book takes advantage of recent scholarship on labor, race, gender, and the environment. The lively narrative will appeal to students of Texas and western history as well as anyone interested in cowboy culture.
Download or read book The Carriage Journal written by Jill Ryder and published by Carriage Assoc. of America. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chrome Beauty on Four Yellow Wheels [restoring a 1903 Popcorn \!Vagon} by JENNIFER SINGLETON Palmer's Revolution [eighteenth-century improvements in the British postal system and the Mail Coach} by JOHN FORD The Elusive Concord Coach No. 602 [unraveling a Stagecoach mystery} Backward Glances The Road Behind e Elusive Concord Coach No. 602 Memory Lane Your Letters View from the Box The Insider The Passing Scene The Bookshelf Advertising The Last Word
Download or read book Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Texas Cowboy s Journal written by Jack Bailey and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this earliest known day-by-day journal of a cattle drive from Texas to Kansas, Jack Bailey, a North Texas farmer, describes what it was like to live and work as a cowboy in the southern plains just after the Civil War. We follow Bailey as the drive moves northward into Kansas and then as his party returns to Texas through eastern Kansas, southwestern Missouri, northwestern Arkansas, and Indian Territory. For readers steeped in romantic cowboy legend, the journal contains surprises. Bailey’s time on the trail was hardly lonely. We travel with him as he encounters Indians, U.S. soldiers, Mexicans, freed slaves, and cowboys working other drives. He and other crew members—including women—battle hunger, thirst, illness, discomfort, and pain. Cowboys quarrel and play practical jokes on each other and, at night, sing songs around the campfire. David Dary’s thorough introduction and footnotes place the journal in historical context.
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Download or read book Sacred Horses written by Jonathan Evan Maslow and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Westerners have ever laid eyes on these marvelous creatures, but the author was determined to see and ride them, and to spend time with their breeders and trainers.
Download or read book Munsey s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Horse Speak An Equine Human Translation Guide written by Sharon Wilsie and published by Trafalgar Square Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse Speak is not a training method or technique—it is a practical system for “listening” and “talking” to horses in their language, instead of expecting them to comprehend ours. Horse Speak can be used by anyone who works with horses, whether riding instructor, colt starter, recreational rider, or avid competitor. It promises improved understanding of what a horse is telling you, and provides simple replies you can use to tell him that you “hear” him, you “get it,” and you have ideas you want to share with him, too. The result? Time with your horse will be full of what horse trainer and equine-assisted learning instructor Sharon Wilsie of Wilsie Way Horsemanship calls Conversations, and soon the all-too-common misunderstandings that occur between horse and human will evolve into civil discussions with positive and progressive results! Learn Horse Speak in 12 easy steps; understand equine communication via breath and body language; and discover the Four Gs of Horse Speak: Greeting, Going Somewhere, Grooming, and Gone. Practice regulating your intensity, and sample dozens of ready-made Conversations with your horse, as step-by-step templates and instructional color photographs walk you through the eye-opening process of communicating on a whole new level.
Download or read book Scribner s Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outing Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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