
The Ultimate Horse Enthusiast's Compendium: 41 Books
A 41-Volume Treasury of Horsemanship, Veterinary Science, Racing, Cavalry, and AdventureBy Will C. Barnes, Sewell Ford, Nat Gould, Rush Shippen Huidekoper, Charles B. Michener, Leonard Pearson, United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, W. H. Harbaugh, John E. Russell, François Boucher, A. E. Sir Shipley, John Hankins Wallace, H. Caulton Reeks, James Glass Bertram, E. Daumas, O. S. Pratt, Kenneth Austin, Francis Bond Sir Head, Moses James Nobbs, John Gilmer Speed, Theo. Stephenson Browne, Joshua A. Nunn, John J. Stutzman, P. R. Kincaid, Maurice Hartland Mahon, William Osmer, A. S. Alexander, J. Albert Frost, William J. Moore, Conrad Mitchell, Basil Tozer, Walter Sir Gilbey, Charles Hunt Marshall, Laura Lee Hope, James Otis, Harry Castlemon, William O. Stoddard, Marguerite Henry, David Grew, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Edith Carrington, Homer Greene, J. D. Koogle, Oskar Pfungst, George Wharton JamesLength245h 1m
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The Ultimate Horse Enthusiast's Compendium: 41 Books surveys the horse as working partner, athletic subject, cultural symbol, and imaginative companion. Its unusually broad archive moves among manuals of breeding, veterinary care, conformation, and training; histories of cavalry and travel; sporting narratives; and juvenile adventures in which equine loyalty structures moral education. Scientific investigations of animal perception and practical discussions of stock management sit beside fiction, making the volume a record of changing human–horse relations. Its contributors include horsemen, veterinarians, agricultural specialists, military observers, naturalists, popular journalists, and writers for young readers, as well as materials associated with the United States Bureau of Animal Industry. Together, these voices place horsemanship within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century worlds of rural modernization, imperial travel, sporting culture, animal science, and children's literature. The collection's international range, extending from American ranching and breeding practices to European equestrian traditions, reveals how expertise and storytelling jointly shaped ideas of care, utility, and companionship. Ideal for equine enthusiasts, historians of animals, and students of popular culture, this compendium offers a rare opportunity to compare technical knowledge with literary imagination. Readers will find both practical instruction and a rich dialogue about the horse's enduring place in work, recreation, and narrative.
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GenreScience and Nature, General Fiction
Length245 hrs 1 min
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
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Table of contents
1Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
2ILLUSTRATIONS.
3FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF DISEASE.
4DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS.
5DISEASES OF THE RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
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6DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS.
7DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS.
8DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
9DISEASES OF THE HEART, BLOOD VESSELS, AND LYMPHATICS.
10DISEASES OF THE EYE.
11LAMENESS: ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. (pt. 1)
12LAMENESS: ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. (pt. 2)
13LAMENESS: ITS CAUSES AND TREATMENT. (pt. 3)
14DISEASES OF THE FETLOCK, ANKLE, AND FOOT. (pt. 1)
15DISEASES OF THE FETLOCK, ANKLE, AND FOOT. (pt. 2)
16DISEASES OF THE SKIN.
17WOUNDS AND THEIR TREATMENT.
18INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (pt. 1)
19INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (pt. 2)
20HORSESHOEING.
21Diseases of the Horse's Foot
22DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOT
23C. THE TENDONS
24B. CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND HISTOLOGY OF HORN.
25E. MEDIAN NEURECTOMY.
26C. FLAT-FOOT.
27B. CORNS.
28C. CORONITIS (SIMPLE). TREAD, OVERREACH, ETC.
29D. FALSE QUARTER.
30B. CHRONIC.
31CHAPTER X
32C. OSSIFICATION OF THE LATERAL CARTILAGES, OR SIDE-BONES.
33B. PYRAMIDAL DISEASE, BUTTRESS FOOT, OR LOW RINGBONE.
34D. DISLOCATIONS.
35Pearls & Parasites
36PEARLS AND PARASITES
37BRITISH SEA-FISHERIES
38ZEBRAS, HORSES, AND HYBRIDS
39PASTEUR
40‘INFINITE TORMENT OF FLIES’
41THE DANGER OF FLIES
42Complete Treatise on the mare and foal at the time of delivery, with illustrations
43INTRODUCTION.
44Rational Horse-Shoeing
45INTRODUCTION.
46Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses
47INTRODUCTION.
48THE ART OF SHOEING HORSES.
49I. FOALS.
50II. PREPARING THE FOOT FOR THE SHOE.