One of the earliest guides to breaking horses by one of America's greatest horse tamers. J.S. Rarey was born in Grovesport, Ohio in 1827. His father raised horses, and by the age of twelve Rarey could tame virtually any wild horse. Across the country he gained a reputation as a horse tamer, and in 1856 he published this little book on the subject. In 1857, Rarey went to England, where he made his fame and fortune. He returned to America in 1860, bringing Cruiser, a notorious maniac that he had tamed. At the age of thirty-nine Rarey died, having made his name as one of the greatest horse trainers in American history.
Well over 150 years before Robert Redford directed and starred in “The Horse Whisperer”, inspired by Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, Willis J. Powell was whispering to horses and training them much in the way the fictitious character Tom Booker did in the 1985 film. Indeed this volume was first issued in 1848, a hundred and thirty-seven years before the famous movie. By then Powell had been in business for over 30 years. In this volume Powell and Rarey tell: How to break and ride colts; How to tame the most vicious horses and gentle them to all kinds of vehicles or work; How to break them of kicking or any other bad tricks; How to teach them tricks or actions; etc., etc. This volume also has Numerous valuable receipts for diseases of horses as well as tips for farmers dealing with troublesome cows as well as remedies for oxen that lie down, and won’t get up. As such, we recommend this book to anyone wanting to start a career in Horse Whispering. We also recommend it to young people who are just breaking into equine activities for either pleasure or sport, if only to give a valuable understanding of the nature of the equine breeds. In this volume Powell recounts how he read of a man who had lived a century earlier who had a secret method of taming horses and he resolved to discover the method for himself. Powell commenced his career as a horse whisperer shortly after 1811 and was so successful he was invited to Mexico to train and tame wild and troublesome horses. Thereafter Powell lived in Mexico for about 12 years, and then travelled to Cuba, Guatemala and California taming horses and making a good living doing so. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. =========== KEYWORDS/TAGS: The Real Horse Whisperer, Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, Willis J. Powell, Rarey, advance, afraid, afterwards, alone, animal, approach, attempt, attention, bear, body, break, bridle, broken, cage, care, caress, class, colt, common, confidence, continue, corn, country, danger, degrees, direction, discover, distance, ears, eat, effect, end, exercise, experience, experiments, familiar, fifteen, first, fodder, force, forehead, found, four feet, frighten, frightened, gentle, gentled, gentling, gently, Give, gradually, ground, halter, hand, handle, hands, harness, head, hitch, holding, horse, hundred, hurt, impossible, journey, jump, kick, kind, legs, lessons, letting, lie, lightly, longer, manner, Mexico, natural, nature, necessary, neck, night, nose, observe, operation, order, part, pen, perform, position, precaution, prevent, proceed, process, pulling, purpose, raise, ready, reason, reins, repeat, resistance, rope, round, run, saddle, salt, scare, secret, several, short, sides, signs, six, slowly, small, smell, Spanish, speak, stable, standing, state, steady, stick, strap, strength, strike, strong, suffer, tail, taming, teach, throw, tie, touch, town, understand, used, water, weight, whip, wild, yard, years
Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 –1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic novels, one of the most infl uential ghost story writers of the nineteenth century. “The Tenants of Malory” is the sensation novel about two feuding families, Verney and Fanshawe, and their ambiguous relationship. Arthur, Lord Verney’s nephew, cannot choose between his feelings to Margaret Fanshawe and for his benefi t. Through this novel, the author asks a question – how many moral principles is a person willing to sacrifi ce for a brief sense of superiority?
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