Download or read book Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty anecdotes about the Texas West, specifically tales from the corrals, livery stables and wagonyards by the old horse traders. The author is a semi-retired veterinarian.
Download or read book Horse Trading in the Age of Cars written by Steven M. Gelber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.
Download or read book Mister You Got Yourself a Horse written by Roger L. Welsch and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-02-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners—those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility—and generosity.
Download or read book Horse Trader written by Will Welton and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the west you had horse traders that could sell anything with a lie. Then you had horse traders that really knew their business and were honest in their dealings. When I was growing up in Oklahoma I had the pleasure of knowing both kinds of horse traders.The horse traders that would lie to you about the health or what was not straightforward about an animal were the kind that did not have much of a repeat of customers. Word would get out on the trader and not many people would be trading or buying a horse from this type of trader.The horse traders that told the person the honest truth about the animal and still be able to satisfy the persons need in a horse had always repeated customers. These men would have people tell other people that he had never saw before and they would know that they would get an honest deal. These old time horse traders could take a horse that was in poor health or people thought the horse was ready for the glue factory, so to speak all most dead, and bring the poor creature back to health. My step-father, Frank Wesley Johnson, was such of a trader. The herbal mixtures wrote about in this book were some of many he used in getting horses healthy. He used such remedies on horse, cattle, and us kids from time to time. It the early 1900's he was know to trade horses several times near Cache Oklahoma with Frank James and J. Frank Dalton (who he said until the end that it was the Jessie James he met when he was a boy at his fathers (Green W. Johnson) home on Only Creek near Stigler Indian Territory.)Some of the horse traders were just local men that did not travel more than a hundred or so miles from home. While other horse traders might range from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border and from the Mississippi River to the Ari-zona territory. These traders usually had a covered wagon and might have ten or more horses strung out behind the wagon on a lead line. These men would have people hear of their trading skills and a person might travel fifty miles to the trader that was honest.
Download or read book Horse Trading in the Age of Cars written by Steven M. Gelber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the combative and frequently dishonest culture of the showroom floor is a historical artifact whose origins lie in the history of horse trading. Bartering and bargaining were the norm in this predominantly male transaction, with both buyers and sellers staking their reputations and pride on their ability to negotiate the better deal. Gelber comments on this point-of-sale behavior and what it reveals about American men. Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.
Download or read book Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green’s experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went into horse trading, in what he imagined would be retirement. No stranger to the saddle, Green claims to have “with these bloodshot eyes and gnarled hands measured over seventy thousand horses.” His tales range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule from a bucket of paint and a chicken’s egg. So you want to go into the horse business? You can learn the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure con man hokum of horse trading here, in a book every westerner or horse fancier should have on hand.
Download or read book Some More Horse Tradin written by Ben K. Green and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben “Doc” Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible “con” that has branded Doc’s books as classics of Western Americana. Some More Horse Tradin’ recounts the go-arounds of Doc and a whole slew of craggy old-timers and rangy characters, including a watermelon hauler “who has a bit of snuff that seeps out a little on his whiskers,” Professor Know-It-All, the “charitable” Mr. Undertaker, and the well-known public cowboy Will Rogers. See all of them matching their wiles and hear a lot of palaver, dealin’ and tradin’ for well-bred usin’-type mares, snorty-like range horses, and even used-to-be bad horses from the tumbleweeded plains of Texas to the mountain meadows of Yankee Vermont. Watch the Doc stretch a city ordinance with a frustrated lawman in “The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas” and admire the old-time knavery, skill, and salesmanship in such tales as “Gittin’ Even,” “Brethren Horse Traders,” “Mule Schoolin’,” and “Water Treatment and the Sore-Tailed Bronc.” So here you go—with Doc Green and his horse-tradin’ West in finest fettle. As he puts it himself, “These apples come from the same barrel as Horse Tradin’ but they ain’t none of them spotty.”
Download or read book David Harum written by Edward Noyes Westcott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott
Download or read book A Song for the Horse Nation written by National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.
Download or read book Horse Trading and Road Show Account Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of horses bought and sold in Connecticut and other states in the early twentieth century. Includes a description of each horse and the amount for which it was bought or sold. In May 1903 a horse was sold to former Connecticut Governor Bulkeley.
Download or read book Tea Horse Road written by Michael Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the longest and most dramatic trade routes of the ancient world, the Tea Horse Road carried a crucial exchange for 13 centuries between China and Tibet. China needed war horses to protect its northern frontier and Tibet could supply them. When the Tibetans discovered tea in the 7th century, it became a staple of their diet, but its origins are in southwest China, and they had to trade for it. The result was a network of trails covering more than 3,000 kilometres through forests, gorges and high passes onto the Himalayan plateaus, traversed by horse, mule and yak caravans, and human porters. It linked cultures, economies and political ambitions, and lasted until the middle of the 20th century. Re-tracing the many branches of the Road, photographer and writer Michael Freeman spent two years compiling this remarkable visual record, from the Tea Mountains of southern Yunnan and Sichuan to Tibet and beyond. Collaborating on this fascinating account, ethno-ecologist Selena Ahmed's description of tea and bio-cultural diversity in the region draws on her original doctoral research. SELLING POINTS: * Revised in new compact format of popular best seller * World-famous photographer Michael Freeman * Important book on China's famous route 250 colour
Download or read book The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England written by Peter Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the flourishing market for horses in pre-industrial England.
Download or read book The Horse Traders written by Steven Crist and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes an in-depth look at the business of high-stake thoroughbred horse racing, in an analysis that ranges from horses, horse traders, winners and losers, to investors, speculators, and the complex structure of stud syndications
Download or read book Laws to Deal with Horse Trading of Legislators written by Ashwin Singh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horse trading if taken literally, means the system of bartering or dealing with horses Because of the inherent perplexity attached while determining the worth of a horse being proffered for sale, such a sale of the horses presented to the bargaining parties great incentives for treachery, deceit and dishonesty, metaphorically steering us to the terminology now commonly known as horse trading (or vote trading) referring to the complicated bargaining or other such convoluted and indecisive transactions, such as trading of votes in the Parliament or political trading of votes. Horse trading in the western countries eventually became a symbol of unethical business trading. Horse traders' practices have been increasingly seen as the normal and, in part, attractive outcome of a dynamic market instead of symbols depicting moral turpitude. As per the Cambridge Dictionary horse trading is portrayed as a wile, often exacting, talks among people owing their allegiance or loyalty to different groups and organizations in order to make profitable deals for their parties usually put forth conditions which are usually unauthorized and unapproved of. The origins of the term can be seen in the nineteenth century, when horse traders were seen as being especially crafty or calculating. It applies to unofficial compromises in contemporary British English involving hard negotiating and giving-and-taking, and varying degrees of agreement, which brings a general feeling of disdain. Horse dealing has been widely used in the history of Indian politics since the mid-1960s at the time political defections were widespread, wherein the various MLAs and other party members were required to infringe the regular party regulations which in turn often helped rivals form governments. It typically includes loaves and shrimp, office lure and is perceived as government corruption. On Congress ticket, Gaya Lal was elected from the city of Hasanput (Dt. Palwal) to the Legislative Assembly of Haryana. Gaya Lal shifted to and fro from Congress party to the Janata Party three times in fifteen days, and then went back to Congress and then shifted again to Janata Party in less than nine hours. 'Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram came into existence when Gaya Lal assured that he would no longer be a part of United Front and firmly transferred his loyalties towards Congress. It thereafter started encountering a lot of attention and eventually became the topic of contention for the entire Parliament and the politicians.
Download or read book Pit Bull written by Martin Schwartz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz, Champion Trader--the man whose nerves of steel and killer instinct in the canyons of Wall Street earned him the well-deserved name "Pit Bull." This is the true story of how Schwartz became the best of the best, of the people and places he discovered along the way and of the trader’s tricks and techniques he used to make his millions.
Download or read book Horse Trading the New Zealand Way written by Pat Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Carriage Trade written by Thomas A. Kinney and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Winner of the 2005 Hagley Business History Book Prize given by the Busines History Conference. In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. In the previous century, carriage-building had been one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the country. In this sweeping study of a forgotten trade, Thomas A. Kinney extends our understanding of nineteenth-century American industrialization far beyond the steel mill and railroad. The legendary Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company in 1880 produced a hundred wagons a day—one every six minutes. Across the country, smaller factories fashioned vast quantities of buggies, farm wagons, and luxury carriages. Today, if we think of carriage and wagon at all, we assume it merely foreshadowed the automobile industry. Yet., the carriage industry epitomized a batch-work approach to production that flourished for decades. Contradicting the model of industrial development in which hand tools, small firms, and individual craftsmanship simply gave way to mechanized factories, the carriage industry successfully employed small-scale business and manufacturing practices throughout its history. The Carriage Trade traces the rise and fall of this heterogeneous industry, from the pre-industrial shop system to the coming of the automobile, using as case studies Studebaker, the New York–based luxury carriage-maker Brewsters, and dozens of smallerfirms from around the country. Kinney also explores the experiences of the carriage and wagon worker over the life of the industry. Deeply researched and strikingly original, this study contributes a vivid chapter to the story of America's industrial revolution.
