Tachyhippodamia; or, The new secret of taming horses ... By Willis J. Powell. To which is added the breaking, training, and taming horses. By J. S. Rarey ...
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781425514204
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: The first experiments I made upon wild horses, in order to break them in a shorter time than that usually employed to that end, consisted in the application of different kinds of smells, such as opium, the oil of cummin, assafoetida, that callous substance called the spur which grows upon the inside of a horse's fore-legs, the sweat from a man's arm-pit, mare's milk, &amp;c., &amp;c.