Horses and Americans

xiii, 333 pp. Color frontispiece. 103 reproductions of illustrations and photographs. Decorations by Kurt Wiese. CONTENTS: Part One. Four Centuries of Frontiers: Ninety Horses with Coats of Mail; Cavalier, Deacon and Farmer; Thirteen Colonies; Eighteenth-Century Travel and Transport; Patriots; East and West; Wheels; The Begates; The Shout of the Multitude; Cowboys; The Way West; Note on Two Wars; Long Hauls; Part Two. In Our Times: Society; Improving the Breed; Modern Calvary; Working Stock; Forecast. Bibliography; Index. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Philip Duffield Stong (January 27, 1899 – April 26, 1957)[1][2] was an American author, journalist and Hollywood scenarist.[3] He is best known for the novel State Fair, which was adapted as a film three times (1933, 1945 and 1962) and as a Broadway musical in 1996.