| Portrait of O. S. Pratt, | Frontispiece. |
| The old homestead, | 16 |
| My first store in Batavia, | 22 |
| My second and enlarged store, | 26 |
| Gold-headed cane, | 51 |
| Gold-mounted whip, | 61 |
| Portrait of Mrs. Pratt, | 78 |
| Washington gold medal, | 82 |
| Bridgeport Academy, | 94 |
| Nahant Beach residence, | 100 |
| Lewiston Academy, | 108 |
| Music box, | 120 |
| Silver tea-service, | 130 |
| New method of haltering a wild colt, | 160 |
| To educate to the words “Come here”, | 164 |
| How to lay a horse down, | 168 |
| How to get a horse up that throws himself, | 172 |
| To educate a colt not to be afraid of his heels, | 176 |
| To educate a colt to drive before being harnessed, | 180 |
| To educate a colt to move his body and head, | 184 |
| Improved method of bitting a colt, | 188 |
| Educating the colt to ride, | 192 |
| Instructions to ride the colt, | 196 |
| To halter-break a colt, | 200 |
| To educate a horse not to kick in the stable, | 204 |
| To educate a horse not to paw or kick in the stable, | 208 |
| To educate a horse not to get cast in the stall, | 212 |
| To educate a colt to lead behind a wagon, | 216 |
| To educate a horse bad to catch, | 220 |
| To educate a horse not to rear, | 224 |
| To educate and prevent a horse from cribbing, | 226 |
| To educate and break a halter-puller, | 232 |
| To educate a horse not to kick when line gets under his tail, | 236 |
| To educate a horse not to kick, | 240 |
| To educate a horse bad to groom, | 246 |
| Bits used in educating horses, | 250 |
| To educate horses not to fear objects when driving, | 256 |
| To educate a horse not to fear an umbrella, | 260 |
| Second lesson, | 264 |
| To educate a single-footed horse to trot square, | 268 |
| To educate a pacing horse to trot, | 272 |
| To educate a horse to trot, | 276 |
| To educate a horse not to kick while in shafts, | 280 |
| To educate a lazy horse and infuse life into him, | 286 |
| To start a balky horse, | 290 |
| To educate a balky horse, | 294 |
| To educate a horse not to kick while being shod, | 298 |
| To educate a horse while standing bad to shoe, | 302 |
| Double-hitch Bonaparte bridle, | 306 |
| Controlling a horse bad to shoe, | 310 |
| To educate a horse not to fear the cars, | 314 |
| To educate a horse to back at the word of command, | 318 |
| To educate horses or cattle not to jump fences, | 322 |
| To educate a cow not to kick while being milked, | 326 |
| To educate a cow to let her milk down, | 330 |
| Practical results of foregoing education, | 334 |
| To educate cattle to lead behind a wagon, | 338 |
| To educate a tender-mouthed horse, | 342 |
| To educate horses not to fear a buffalo robe, | 345 |
| Patent steel and hoof-expanding shoe, | 362 |
| To educate a horse to mount a pedestal, | 366 |
| To educate a horse to walk on his hind feet, | 370 |
| To educate a horse to push a vehicle, | 376 |
| To educate a horse to be vicious, | 378 |
| To educate a horse to walk on his knees, | 382 |
| To educate a horse to drive a boy off the pedestal, | 386 |
| To educate a horse to sit down, | 390 |
| To educate a horse to bore for oil, | 394 |
| A sure method of making a horse bad to catch, | 398 |
| To educate a horse to take a handkerchief from his side, | 402 |
| To educate a horse to kiss a boy, | 406 |
| System of educating dogs, | 410 |
| Another illustration of educating dogs, | 414 |
| Curing colic in horses, | 418 |
| The only practical way to give a horse medicine, | 422 |
| New method of telling the horse’s age, | 426 and 427 |
| To prevent horses from interfering or overreaching, | 440 |
| Paring the hoof, | 451 |
| Long foot before treatment, | 452 |
| Long foot after treatment, | 453 |
| Coffin-bone, | 454 |
| Fitting a shoe to remove pressure from the heel, | 456 |
| Instructions respecting the feet, | 457 |
| Contracted foot after treatment, | 458 |
| Expanding the foot after it has been pared out, | 461 |
| Lateral quarter-crack before treatment, | 462 |
| Quarter-crack under treatment, | 463 |
| Straight quarter-crack under treatment, | 464 |
| Quarter-crack after treatment, | 467 |
| Toe crack before treatment, | 468 |
| Toe crack after treatment, | 473 |
| Four engravings showing thrush and pumice foot, | 474 |
| Hoof-bound, under treatment, | 475 |
| Overgrowth of hoof, | 479 |
| Overgrowth of hoof—front view before treatment, | 480 |
| Overgrowth of hoof—front view after treatment, | 481 |
| Navicula—enlargement of metacarpal bone, | 482 |
| Showing how to find enlargement of metacarpal bone, | 488 |
| A foot that is deprived of the free use of the back tendons, | 490 |
| Ossified growth of upper and lower pastern joint, | 491 |
| The sensitive frog, | 492 |
| Section of the pastern and other bones, | 494 |
The Horse's Friend / The Only Practical Method of Educating the Horse and Eradicating Vicious Habits; Followed by a Variety of Valuable Recipes, Instructions in Farriery, Horse-shoeing, the Latest Rules of Trotting, and the Record of Fast Horses Up to 1876
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About This Book
A practical manual presents a step-by-step system for educating horses and eliminating vicious habits, with lessons covering haltering, leading, driving, stabling, and teaching specific behaviors. It pairs training protocols with detailed farriery and horseshoeing guidance, feeding and fitness recommendations, and remedies for common ailments. The author intersperses accounts of public demonstrations and instruction tours with over a hundred illustrations that show haltering, hoof paring, shoe fitting, and corrective treatments. Supplementary sections treat training of dogs and cattle, a variety of trick exercises, and a compiled record and rules for trotting alongside miscellaneous recipes and practical tips for handlers.