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Ghost Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash
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There are so many amazing horses that I have enjoyed reading about in both fiction and non-fiction books. I will list a few and hope that my readers will comment about their favorite stories.
Hubby and I were talking about the sadness of the loss of horses in wars…both the Civil War and WW I. The fantasy book I just read, River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay, mentions the horses that used to come to China from the West along the Silk Road and the book is about the Horse Riders of the North that invade during the Song Dynasty.
I really enjoy stories about horses, even the sad ones. From the time I read Black Beauty as a child through reading about the Riders of Rohan and Gandalf’s Shadowfax, they have stirred my imagination. There are so many that are memorable.
Here are some of my favorites.
Wiki has the full lists:
Real horses
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Babieca, horse of El Cid
Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse
Comanche, only documented survivor of General Custer's 7th Cavalry detachment at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's favorite horse, which he rode at the Battle of Waterloo
Marengo, Napoleon's horse which was captured by the British, and outlived Napoleon by eight years
Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse
Warrior, called "Old Warrior", the mount of General Jack Seely which led many charges "over the top" in WW1.
Black Bess, highwayman Dick Turpin's horse
Brown Beauty, the horse Paul Revere borrowed for his famous ride.
Hidalgo, the horse of American distance rider Frank Hopkins who won a 3,000-mile ride in Arabia (I saw the movie with Viggo Mortensen and Omar Sharif a few years back. I was sitting so close to the screen that I felt I was riding the horse. The best part of the movie was the race with the dust storm).
Justin Morgan (http://en.wikipedia.org/...)
The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States.
Tracing back to the foundation sire Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, Morgans served many roles in 19th-century American history, being used as coach horses and for harness racing, as general riding animals, and as cavalry horses during the American Civil War on both sides of the conflict. Morgans have influenced other major American breeds, including the American Quarter Horse, Tennessee Walking Horse and the Standardbred.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, they were exported to other countries, including England, where they influenced the breeding of the Hackney horse. In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture established the US Morgan Horse Farm in Middlebury, Vermont for the purpose of perpetuating and improving the Morgan breed; the farm was later transferred to the University of Vermont. The first breed registry was established in 1909, and since then many organizations in the US, Europe and Oceania have developed. There are estimated to be over 175,000 Morgan horses in existence worldwide as of 2005.
The Morgan is a compact, refined breed, generally bay, black or chestnut in color, although they come in many colors, including several variations of pinto. Used in both English and Western disciplines, the breed is known for its versatility. The Morgan is the state animal of Vermont and the state horse of Massachusetts. Popular children's authors, including Marguerite Henry and Ellen Feld, have portrayed the breed in their books; Henry's Justin Morgan Had a Horse was later made into a Disney movie.
Fictional horses
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Alfonso (or, in Swedish, Lilla Gubben), the horse in the Pippi Longstocking series by Astrid Lindgren.
Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
Athansor, ridden by Peter Lake in Mark Helprin's A Winter's Tale
Binky, ridden by Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
Black Beauty, from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Black Stallion, from a series of 21 books by Walter Farley beginning with The Black Stallion (1941)
Buckbeak, a hippogriff from Harry Potter and Threstrals (not horses…added to this list by me)
Condor, the mount of Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon in Kristen Britain's Green Rider series of books
Dagobaz, Ash's horse from The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
Flicka, from My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Llamrei, steed of King Arthur
Misty of Chincoteague, a real pony made famous by Marguerite Henry's children's book of the same name
Prince and Lady, Almanzo Wilder's Morgan horse driving team of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
Rocinante, from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; also the name of fictional horses in several other books and movies
Silver from The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger Season 1 Episode 1 Enter The Lone Ranger Part 1
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Stranger, Sandor Clegane's warhorse from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin
Horses in Lord of the Rings
Arod, Legolas's horse
Bill the Pony, owned by the Hobbits
Hasufel, Horse given to Aragorn by the Riders of Rohan
Shadowfax, Gandalf the White's horse
Windfola, horse ridden by Éowyn and Merry to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields during the War of the Ring
Horses in mythology
The Grey Macha, CúChulainn's chariot horse; known as the king of all horses
Gringolet, Sir Gawain's horse
Pegasus, a winged horse sired by Poseidon and foaled by Medusa
Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse in Norse myths
Widow-Maker/Lightning, mythical cowboy Pecos Bill's horse
Horses in film
Aldebaran, Antares, Algol and Altair from Ben-Hur (one of four from the Chariot Race)
Champion, Gene Autry's horse
Goliath, from Ladyhawke
Ladyhawke music
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Pie, Velvet Brown's horse from National Velvet
Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse
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Tír na nÓg from Into the West (film)
Horses in television
Argo, from Xena: Warrior Princess, also a name of another horse in the TV Series Wildfire
Mr. Ed, eponymous horse of the CBS series from 1961–1966
Sophie, Colonel Potter's horse on M*A*S*H (TV series)
Tornado, Zorro's horse
Out of the night
When the full moon is bright
Comes the horseman known as Zorro!
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Horses in song
Old Skyball Paint - Roy Rogers & The Statlers
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Roy Rogers: Git Along Little Dogies ( 1940 )
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Stewball, from the eponymous song by Peter, Paul and Mary
The Strawberry Roan - Gene Autry
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The Tennessee Stud, the horse in the eponymous song written by Jimmy Driftwood and sung by Doc Watson.
I heard him sing this a looong time ago. (1968, maybe) Hearing him live was wonderful. Merle was still alive back then and was there, too. Hubby got to go backstage and meet Doc and hold his guitar. Somebody just handed it to him and said, “Hold this.” He was happy to do so.
Doc Watson - Tennessee Stud
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Off topic, but you have to hear this one!!
Doc Watson - 1991 - Black Mountain Rag
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A different kind of horse, the iron horse…sorry…nostalgia got me:
Arlo Guthrie/ City Of New Orleans
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or if you would prefer the song writer singing it, Steve Goodman
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Diaries of the Week:
Write On! Is it clear what's going on?
by SensibleShoes
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Resilience and Climate Change
by gmoke
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This was fun!
R&BLers: Let's Play a Biblio-Game -- Book Haikus
by Limelite
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Lots of lists of great mystery books that are up for awards:
Monday Murder Mystery: Annual Awards List or How to Build a TBR Stack
by Susan from 29
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Robert Fuller says:
Chapter 26 of The Rowan Tree is now up:
http://www.rowantreenovel.com/...
Just this week it occurred to me to let Oberlin alumni know that the "Jefferson College" part of the novel is loosely based on my experiences as President of Oberlin in the early 1970s. (Not the love affair - that's more of a metaphor for the interpersonal dimension of the civil rights struggle during that era). If there are any Kossack-Obies, they might be interested to know that almost everything that takes place at "Jefferson" has already been posted at
http://www.rowantreenovel.com/
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