Horses working to carry milk killed by electrocution during an ice storm, Portland, Oregon, 1907
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This is the grave of Mollie, Maud, and Maggie, all horses. The only way to explain this is through the marker at the site. I had no idea this existed..
This is the grave of Traveller, the horse of the traitor Lee. Traveller was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, Virginia, which is now part of West Virginia. He won.
This is the grave of Whiskey the Horse. Whiskey was born in 1911 and came to Fort Snelling, Minnesota in 1921. It became a trick horse there, despite having a reputation as a difficult animal when it arrived. But Lieutenant William Hazelrigg took on the...
Johnny Cueto's horse has died. Cueto, clearly a reader of LGM, has decided to share a picture of his dead horse with the general public. Since I am returning from.
Meet a Korean horse that plays dead in order to avoid being ridden. I am the Santa of this blog, I know. You are welcome.
Thanks to Barry Freed for this one. Sanborn's map of San Francisco, 1900. Note not only "Butcher Town" but the "Dead Horse Rendering Works" in the lower left.
Book Review: Katherine C. Mooney, Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
In Race Horse Men, Katherine Mooney examines the long history of race from the 1820s to the 1910s through the prism of the racetrack. She effectively argues that this is.
On September 28, 1874, the U.S. military defeated the Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon, south of modern Amarillo, Texas, largely by stealing their horse herds. This forced the Comanche to.
Given how often the Dead Horses in American History series comes up in comments, the only conclusion I can make is that there's a huge demand for more dead horse images. And if there's one thing in the world I care about, it's making the...
Exciting news on the dead horse front, as intact 2000 year old horse skeleton found in British archaeological dig.
A reader sent this to me, to which I give thanks. This is the cover of the February 12, 1898 issue of Harper's. Thanks to Google Books, the greatest invention.