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Title: The Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and Development

Author: John Hankins Wallace

Release date: August 18, 2020 [eBook #62972]
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Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HORSE OF AMERICA IN HIS DERIVATION, HISTORY, AND DEVELOPMENT ***

JOHN H. WALLACE.

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.