Author: John Stephen HockensmithPublisher: Fine Art Editions Press
ISBN: 9781599755977
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dazzling pictorial journey through the world of Romani Gypsies and their horses
Gypsy Horses and the Travelers' Way
Author: John Stephen HockensmithPublisher: Fine Art Editions Press
ISBN: 9781599755977
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A dazzling pictorial journey through the world of Romani Gypsies and their horses
The Carriage Journal
Author: Jill RyderPublisher: Carriage Assoc. of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
230 The Coach at 59 Second Street by Ken Wheeling 235 Going for Gold! by Jennifer Singleton 236 Collar Selection, Part Three by Barb Lee 240 (Nearly) Everyone Carried a Gun by Joe Moran 245 Champions ofWalnut Hill• Photo Essay 248 The Private Driving Club by Tom Ryder 25 0 An Austrian in America, Part Three by Mario Dobert 254 2006 CAA Conference Photo Scrapbook The World on Wheels • Cape Cart The Road Behind• Carriage Names Memories ... Mostly Horsy Collectors' Corner > Plates From the CMA Library The Bookshelf• Reviews CAA Bookstore & Holiday Catalog Letters to the Editor The View from the Box, by Katie Whaley
Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West
Author: John S. HockensmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806199757
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A stunning photographic legacy of the horse’s reintroduction to North America Horses are an integral part of the American experience. They are so tied with the development of the nation and its psyche, it is impossible to imagine history without them. Yet prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s, horses had been absent from North America for millennia. In this beautifully illustrated volume, celebrated equine photographer John S. Hockensmith reveals how the return of horses with the conquistadors both altered American Indian cultures and later supported the development of the United States. Gracing these pages are stunning full-color photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears. Captured visually in the rugged Rocky Mountains or the rolling grassy plains of the West, these horses are our shared living legacy. From the tender private moments between mare and foal to the aggressive determination of clashing stallions, Hockensmith throws open a breathtaking window on these horses’ lives. Given the ongoing debate about the future of North America’s wild horses, many of which trace their ancestry to Spanish steeds and the early mustangs, this work will stand as a significant marker on the mutual path traveled by horse and human.
The Gift of Color
Author: Fine Art Editions Gallery and PressPublisher:
ISBN: 9781532353284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Nomads & Travelers
Author: Dave DaltonPublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403469625
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Gives an overview of the lives of hunters and gatherers, pastoralists, and travelers from across the globe, including a look at the issues nomads face in their everyday lives and regarding civil rights.
Travel
Author: Everygirl's Magazine ...
Author: Rowe WrightThe Craftsman
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
An illustrated monthly magazine in the interest of better art, better work and a better more reasonable way of living.
Tales of the Express
Author: Ellen WightPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450098231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
TALES OF THE EXPRESS This true story begins in 1826, at a small farm in New Hampshire. The main character is a scared, thirteen-year old girl, named Charlotte Parker. An alcoholic and abusive stepfather and stepbrother complicate her life and she runs away from home with an old horse. After running as far as the horse could take them, Charlotte disguises herself as a boy and tries to find work at a stable. She meets a kind-hearted man named Ebenezer Balch, who owns a livery stable and tavern called the Balch House. Eb takes the boy under his wing and vows to make a man of him. Reinventing herself as Charley Parkhurst, the “boy” becomes part of the family business. Charley stays on at the Balch house and learns to become a respected coachman. In 1844, when the Balchs’ relocated to Providence Rhode Island, Charley, now 31 went along as well. At the “What Cheer House”, in Providence, Charley meets two young men named James Birch and Frank Stevens, who are hired on as stable boys. Parkhurst trains them well as coachmen and during the California gold rush, Birch and Stevens helm a wagon train to the west. James Birch starts a stagecoach business in Sacramento and is wildly successful. Here we are introduced to a lawman named William Wallace Byrnes and see California hang its’ first woman. Several future outlaws are introduced before James Birch can convince Charley Parkhurst to come to California to drive stagecoaches. Parkhurst travels to California with Birch and another coachman named Hank Monk, aboard ship, stopping in Jamaica, before taking a boat ride through the jungles, then riding mules over the mountains to Panama and a waiting ship, with cholera still lingering on her decks. When they get to California, Birch shows them the ropes and sends them down the road. While driving a stagecoach in the Mariposa mountains, Parkhurst is attacked by a sadistic killer named Tres Dedos and left for the bears to finish. A Cherokee poet, John Rolling Ridge, who was camped nearby, rescues Charley. The Mexican gang captures the two of them, but the leader, Joaquin Murrieta decides the gang doesn’t need trouble with the U. S. mail and releases them. When back to work, Parkhurst drives with William Byrnes as a shotgun, they forge a tight friendship.William Byrnes joins the California Rangers to hunt down Murrieta. In the fall of 1855, Parkhurst was again in the company of his friend Hank Monk in the foothills of the Sierras, Placerville, where they befriend a young man from Norway, named John Thompson. Remembering his childhood in the Alps, Thompson builds himself a set of skis and eventually signs on to carry the winter mail across the Sierra Mountains to Carson City. In the spring, while Charley was on route to Redwood City, Parkhurst has trouble with a nasty horse and is kicked in the face and loses his eye. Monk cheers up his pal on a bear hunt, that nearly finishes Hank in the river. The following winter, Snowshoe Thompson saves the life of James Sisson, who was freezing to death in an abandon cabin in the Sierras. Charley Parkhurst and Hank Monk both drive the new Pioneer route from Placerville to Carson City. While on this route, Parkhurst is robbed at night by the bandit Sugarfoot. Horace Greeley then makes an appearance, and is treated to a wild ride and ridicule by Hank Monk. Promoting Monk to the rank of legend. April of 1860 saw trouble with the Paiute Indians, near Carson City, after some station keepers at a remote relay station kidnap two Indian women. When Snowshoe Thompson signs up to hunt Indians, Byrnes signs on to keep the Sierras’ only winter mailman alive. Parkhurst decides to see the rest of the frontier, the plains. He signs on with the new “King of Stagecoaching” Ben Holladay, but doesn’t find it to his liking. Charlie learns that Byrnes has been shot seriously and is in need of a trip to Ne
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