PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER II. ORIGINAL HABITAT OF THE HORSE.
CHAPTER III. EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF HORSES.
CHAPTER IV. THE ARABIAN HORSE.
CHAPTER V. THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE.
CHAPTER VI. THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE ( Continued ).
CHAPTER VII. THE AMERICAN RACE HORSE.
CHAPTER VIII. COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY VIRGINIA.
CHAPTER IX. COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY NEW YORK.
CHAPTER X. COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER XI. COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, CAROLINA.
CHAPTER XII. EARLY HORSE HISTORY CANADA.
CHAPTER XIII. ANTIQUITY AND HISTORY OF THE PACING HORSE.
CHAPTER XIV. THE AMERICAN PACER AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE AMERICAN TROTTER.
CHAPTER XV. THE AMERICAN SADDLE HORSE.
CHAPTER XVI. THE WILD HORSES OF AMERICA.
CHAPTER XVII. MESSENGER AND HIS ANCESTORS.
CHAPTER XVIII. HISTORY OF MESSENGER.
CHAPTER XIX. MESSENGER'S SONS.
CHAPTER XX. MESSENGER'S DESCENDANTS.
CHAPTER XXI. HAMBLETONIAN AND HIS FAMILY.
CHAPTER XXII. HAMBLETONIAN'S SONS AND GRANDSONS.
CHAPTER XXIII. MAMBRINO CHIEF AND HIS FAMILY.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE CLAYS AND BASHAWS.
CHAPTER XXV. AMERICAN STAR, PILOT, CHAMPION, AND NORMAN FAMILIES.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE BLUE BULL AND OTHER MINOR FAMILIES.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE BLACK HAWK OR MORGAN FAMILY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ORLOFF TROTTER, BELLFOUNDER, AND THE ENGLISH HACKNEY.
CHAPTER XXIX. INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES.
CHAPTER XXX. INVESTIGATION OF DISPUTED PEDIGREES. ( Continued .)
CHAPTER XXXI. HOW THE TROTTING HORSE IS BRED.
CHAPTER XXXII. HOW THE TROTTING HORSE IS BRED ( Continued ).
CHAPTER XXXIII. HOW THE TROTTING HOUSE IS BRED ( Continued ).
APPENDIX HISTORY OF THE WALLACE PUBLICATIONS. BY A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR.
INDEX.
THE
HORSE OF AMERICA
in his
Derivation, History, and Development.
TRACING HIS ANCESTORS, BY THE AID OF MUCH NEWLY DISCOVERED DATA,
THROUGH ALL THE AGES FROM THE FIRST DAWNINGS
OF HISTORY TO THE PRESENT DAY.
INCLUDING THE HORSES OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD, HITHERTO UNEXPLORED,
GIVING THEIR HISTORY, SIZE, GAITS AND CHARACTERISTICS
IN EACH OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES.
SHOWING HOW THE TROTTING HORSE IS BRED, TOGETHER WITH A HISTORY
OF THE PUBLICATIONS THROUGH WHICH THE BREED
OF TROTTERS WAS ESTABLISHED.
With Maps and Illustrations.
BY
JOHN H. WALLACE,
Founder of “Wallace’s American Trotting Register,” “Wallace’s Monthly,”
“Wallace’s Year Book,” etc.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
1897.
Entered according to act of Congress, by
JOHN H. WALLACE,
in the year 1897, at Washington, D. C.
