Table of Contents
Foreword: Why Write about Horses? vii
Book 1 Forty-Five Million Years
I The Dawn Horses 1
II Where They Went 13
Book 2 The Horse Comes of Age
I Adoption by Man 29
II The Horse and Religion 39
III The Horse Learns to Fight 59
IV … And to Play 83
Book 3 Wild Horses
I Asiatic Wild Horses 109
II The Zebra 118
III The Mustang 125
IV Taming the Wild Horse 135
Book 4 A Kingdom for a Horse
I England Fosters Horses 145
II When Knighthood Was in Flower 158
III The Horse Errant 177
IV Crusades and Horses 190
Book 5 A Bridle for Pegasus
I Coach Horses 215
II The Horse Goes West 248
III The Pony Express 273
Book 6 Glamour Horses
I Born with a Silver Bit 293
II Hound and Horn 303
III Polo 317
IV Hollywood Glorifies the Horse 328
V Horse Shows 340
Book 7 The Working Horse
I Modern Cavalry 363
II Fire Horses 372
III Proletarian Horses 381
IV Reformers Discover the Horse 390
Book 8 Turf and Track
I Race Horses as They Were 403
II … And as They Are 419
III More than One Way to Race a Horse 433
IV Let's See His Teeth 447
Book 9 Breeds and Strains
I American Saddle Horse 462
II Arabian 465
III Belgian 470
IV Clydesdale 474
V Hackney 477
VI Morgan 480
VII Percheron 483
VIII Shire 486
IX Standard Bred 489
X Suffolk 491
Book 10 Lesser Lights
I The Ass and Stupidity 495
II Studies in Stubbornness 503
III Ponies-Abridged Editions 512
Postscript: What of the Morrow? 519
Index 521
