Everyone has been talking about horse books and their reading list, alas I am new and havnt been tagged, yet? But I thought that I would throw my two cents in. Cuz its my blog and I can LOL. I try to look for old horse books a garage sales so I have quite a few oldies, it makes garage saleing fun.
In no particular order:
True Horsemanship Through Feel-Bill Dorrance and Leslie Desmond
True Unity-Tom Dorrance love it, have to keep rereading it as I find something new every time
Revolution in Horsemanship-Robert Miller dvm and Rick Lamb highly recommended!!
Spotted Pride-Frank Holmes quite a few of my mares ancestors are in here
Teaching Safe Horsemanship-Jan Dawson from my 4h leader days
Monte Foreman Horsetraining Science-Monty Forman and Patrick Wyse went to one of Pat Wyse's clinics@ 04, it was ok, I adopted the curb bit he uses and still use it to this day
101 Horsemanship and Equitation patterns-Cherry Hill
Discovering Natural Horsemanship-Tom Moates kind of memoirs on his journey a little slow
The Faraway Horses and Believe-Buck Brannaman-highly recommended!
Chicken Soup For The Horselovers Soul
Some of my oldies I have found at sales:
Horsekeeping On Small Acreage-Cherry Hill this is one of her first ones
Saddle Up-Charles E Ball hard and soft copies
The Western Trainer-Dave Jones
Family Horse-Jackie Spaulding
Album Of Horses-Margeret Henery beautiful drawings of breeds of horses classic book
CW Andersons Complete Book Of Horses and Horsemanship-CW Anderson-Billy and Blaze fame I loved the Billy and Blaze stories
The magazines I have laying around are Horse and Rider, Savvy Times, and Western Horseman, and I occasionally pick up Equus. I told you I read all I can get my hands on LOL I am sure there are more around, this is just the livingroom bookshelf LOL cuz I have some Pat Parelli books, showmanship books LOL I need a library room
3 days ago
I have enjoyed taking a look back in your blog. Thanks for visiting the Middle of the Road. I hope that you enjoy the adventures of the Pony Cousins.
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