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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners—those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility—and generosity.
Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green’s experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went into horse trading, in what he imagined would be retirement. No stranger to the saddle, Green claims to have “with these bloodshot eyes and gnarled hands measured over seventy thousand horses.” His tales range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule from a bucket of paint and a chicken’s egg. So you want to go into the horse business? You can learn the knavery, skill, salesmanship, and pure con man hokum of horse trading here, in a book every westerner or horse fancier should have on hand.
This collection draws on a wide range of locations, times and cultures, featuring tales from Ancient Greece, fourteenth-century Mongolia, medieval France and the present day. The horses and ponies themselves are equally diverse, each magnificently pictured in full colour by award-winning artist Inga Moore, who, like June Crebbin, is a lifelong horse-lover. Any child who shares their passion will find this the perfect equine companion.
"This is the memoir, taped and edited by his cousin, of a 108-year-old man who died in 1990. Daniels lived mostly between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He was born in Iowa and farmed and bred all manner of livestock, with a particular love of horses. More than a review of his life, this is an oral recounting of over half the history of America, taking in the Civil War, the persecution of the Indians, Henry Ford's first motorcar and the evolution of the United States of today."--Goodreads.
From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben “Doc” Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible “con” that has branded Doc’s books as classics of Western Americana. Some More Horse Tradin’ recounts the go-arounds of Doc and a whole slew of craggy old-timers and rangy characters, including a watermelon hauler “who has a bit of snuff that seeps out a little on his whiskers,” Professor Know-It-All, the “charitable” Mr. Undertaker, and the well-known public cowboy Will Rogers. See all of them matching their wiles and hear a lot of palaver, dealin’ and tradin’ for well-bred usin’-type mares, snorty-like range horses, and even used-to-be bad horses from the tumbleweeded plains of Texas to the mountain meadows of Yankee Vermont. Watch the Doc stretch a city ordinance with a frustrated lawman in “The Last Trail Drive Through Downtown Dallas” and admire the old-time knavery, skill, and salesmanship in such tales as “Gittin’ Even,” “Brethren Horse Traders,” “Mule Schoolin’,” and “Water Treatment and the Sore-Tailed Bronc.” So here you go—with Doc Green and his horse-tradin’ West in finest fettle. As he puts it himself, “These apples come from the same barrel as Horse Tradin’ but they ain’t none of them spotty.”
Every horse trainer and horse trader with grey hair has a plethora of story tales that never cease to amaze and amuse. Most make one wonder about the innate intelligence factor we humans are supposed to possess simply from being of the species Homo Sapien. The history of people involved in the multiple facets of the horse business truly are the very same as from centuries ago; much the same way the history of human behavior remains biblical. Despite the modern era of new technology and computerized methods of checking what horses and trainers avail themselves to the market, the mentality of the buyers and wannabe horsemen has remained the same. Every person who has ridden for three months or longer and all long term horse owners suddenly know more than the professional trainers. These self-proclaimed horse trainers, even those with stellar academic backgrounds, oft seem to hold lower quotient levels than the average man on the street. I know this because of the words written since the time of the renowned horseman and soldier of ancient Greece, Xenophon. Truly, not much has changed. With this in mind, the dynamics and sequence of events during a business transaction between the true horseman and the person holding the wallet are a worthy event to witness. Also, the process that somehow causes the power of reason to wan as a warped logic invades a horse owner is somewhat alien in every sense of the word. (No offense to any alien implied here.) Spectators can learn much by merely sitting on the sidelines. However, in the horse world everyone seems to hold true to the belief that their opinions and experiences are more worldly and infinitely superior to all others.Having watched, kept my mouth shut (on occasion), and befriended some of the world's finest cowboys and equestrians (cowboys not liking such a fancified term as "equestrian"), I can offer one bonafide certainty. True horsemen possess an unequaled understanding of human behavior. The academic fields of psychiatry and psychology could learn much from these wise old horse traders.Every story in this book is true...give or take a lie or two. kr
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