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Where Have All the Horses Gone?: How Advancing Technology Swept American Horses from the Road, the Farm, the Range and the Battlefield

By Jonathan V Levin

Book information

Publisher
McFarland
Year
2017
ISBN
1476667136, 9781476667133
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4043727 bytes)
Pages
248\249
Time added
2018-04-26 14:31:46
Hobbies & Home;Transportation;Automotive;Aviation;United States;African Americans;Civil War;Colonial

Description

A century ago, horses were ubiquitous in America. They plowed the fields, transported people and goods within and between cities and herded livestock. About a million of them were shipped overseas to serve in World War I. Equine related industries employed vast numbers of stable workers, farriers, wainwrights, harness makers and teamsters. Cities were ringed with fodder-producing farmland, and five-story stables occupied prime real estate in Manhattan. Then, in just a few decades, the horses vanished in a wave of emerging technologies. Those technologies fostered unprecedented economic growth, and with it a culture of recreation and leisure that opened a new place for the horse as an athletic teammate and social companion.

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