Where Have All the Horses Gone?

How Advancing Technology Swept American Horses from the Road, the Farm, the Range and the Battlefield

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Animals, Horses, Pets, History, Americas, United States, 20th Century
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Author: Jonathan V. Levin ISBN: 9781476628370
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Publication: July 19, 2017
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Jonathan V. Levin
ISBN: 9781476628370
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication: July 19, 2017
Imprint:
Language: English

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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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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