Spirit of the horse : a celebration in fact and fable

9781250130020
1250130026

First edition

viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm

Canadiana

Introduction : the zen of risk
The four-legged Olympian
Tachyhippodamia / William J. Powell
My first time
Experience of two boys in managing horses, with many anecdotes of quadrupedal intelligence / Thomas W. Knox
The winged horse
Pegasus, the horse who could fly / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
The horse and the olive / James Baldwin
The horse, hunter, and stag / Aesop
The world is a carousel
The fox and the horse / the Brothers Grimm
The black horse / Joseph Jacobs
Alexander and Bucephalus
The war horse of Alexander / edited by Andrew Lang
Of war horses, or destriers / Michel de Montaigne
Wild horses
Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift
Horsing around on the set
The horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
The mind of the horse
Mr. Stiver's horse / James Montgomery Bailey
The horse as hero ... not
Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth / Harry Graham
My great day
Samuel Cowles and his horse Royal / Eugene Field
To horse / Frances and Gertrude Warner
Blind faith
"White daddy", or, Master and I / Velma Caldwell Melville
The stable as cathedral
A race horse that paid a church debt / Clarence Louis Cullen
The reign of the reining horse
Only the mare / Alfred E.T. Watson
Little Sure Shot
The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide, an autobiography / William F. Cody
The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' vacation adventures, or, Shirley Willing to the rescue / Carolyn Judson Burnett
Born in the saddle
How the old horse won the bet / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Four horses and a sailor / Jack London
The uncertainty factor
A military steeple-chase / Captain R. Bird Thompson
Our horses, our selves
"Whooping" a race-horse under the wire / Clarence Louis Cullen
The spirituality of the horse

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Rovin, Jeff, author