The Ultimate Collection of
Classic Books on Horses
This is a collection of 31 classic books (in PDF format) on horses, which contains everything you want to know and need to know about horses, from horse taming, horse breaking, horse training, horse shoeing, horse breeding, to horse treatment in health & disease.
Please note: Each of these 31 PDF Reprints is an electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in around 1900s.
PDF Reprint #1 ~ #8
376 Pages in total
Prof. Beery's Mail Course in Horsemanship
(1908)
The Complete Set of 8 Books
Prof. Jesse Beery was the world's greatest horse trainer and breaker of all time: He could train any horse -- horses that ran away -- horses that pulled too hard -- horses that were spooked too easily -- horses that refused to be shoed. Whatever the problem, Beery knew how to fix it.
After becoming extremely successful in horse training, Beery decided to set up a horse training school, School of Correspondence in Horsemanship, to teach others his simple training techniques. He taught a great number of horse owners all over the country through his well-known home-study, horse-training manual: Prof. Beery's Mail Course in Horsemanship, a total of 8 books, published in 1908.
Prof. Beery's Mail Course in Horsemanship covers in detail the entire subject of colt training and habit breaking. The methods given are not newfangled ideas or theories but tried plans guaranteed to work out successfully.
The instructions are written in plain, simple language that anyone, no matter how little education he may have, can easily understand. Plenty of illustrations are used so that after reading how to overcome a habit, like kicking for instance, you can see exactly how to go about it by referring to the illustration. What is true of kicking in this respect is also true of all other habits and colt training.
Complete instructions are given for training "green" colts (colts that have never been harnessed) so they will never have bad habits such as kicking, balking, etc. You are told at what age to begin a colt's training; how to teach it the commands "Get Up" and "Whoa" so that it will know and obey these commands no matter what might happen; how to hitch up a colt for the first time; how and when to begin hitching a colt double; in fact the subject of colt training is covered so thoroughly that you can, in a few hours, have a colt driving and working in the best possible manner.
You are told exactly how to overcome such habits as balking, kicking, shying, running away, frightening at automobiles, motorcycles, street and steam cars, etc.; how to make a horse stop pawing in the stable, breaking straps, rearing, plunging, etc.; in fact how to overcome all the habits listed below:
- Biting
- Shying
- Kicking
- Balking
- Striking
- Hard to shoe
- Tender bitted
- Bad to groom
- Tail switching
- Running away
- Bad to harness
- Breaking straps
- Jumping fences
- Afraid of robes
- Afraid of paper
- Refusing to lead
- Refusing to back
- Refusing to stand
- Lolling the tongue
- Pulling on the rein
- Afraid of umbrellas
- Lugging on the bit
- Pawing in the stable
- Crowding in the stall
- Afraid of automobiles
- Lunging and plunging
- Getting fast in the stall
- Refusing to halter or bridle
- Afraid of canvas top wagons
- Afraid of clothes on the line
- Afraid of the sound of a gun
- Afraid of the touch of shafts
- Afraid of the touch of harness
- Afraid of the playing of a band
- Afraid of street and steam cars
- Kicking at master or strangers
- Bad to hitch to buggy or wagon
- Pawing while hitched in the street
- Scaring at hogs or dogs along the road
- Afraid of the sight or sound of steam
- Afraid of the sudden falling of a board
- Refusing to hold back while going down hill
- Running away when halter or bridle is removed
- Afraid of the sound of the buggy or wagon wheels
- Other Features of This Course
Complete instructions, with charts, are given showing how to tell the age of a horse; how to teach a large number of tricks; how to read the disposition of any horse at sight; and so much more!
Contents Covered
- Book 1: Colt Training
- Confidence Lesson
- Teaching "Get-up"
- Teaching "Whoa"
- Hitching up the Colt
- Poling the Colt
- How to keep Colt from Becoming Frightened
- Team Training
- To Make Easy to Ride
- Teaching to Back
- General Remarks
- Book 2: Disposition and Subjection
- How to Tell Type No. 1
- How to Tell Type No. 2
- How to Tell Type No. 3
- How to Tell Type No. 4
- How to Tell Combinations of Types
- How to Use the Pulley Breaking Bridle
- How to Throw a Horse on His Side
- How to Use Double Safety Rope
- How to Handle Horses of Different Types
- Book 3: Kicking and Balking
- How to Handle a No. 1 or No. 3 Type Kicker
- How to Handle a No. 2 or No. 4 Type Kicker
- How to Handle Kickers Belonging in a Combination of Types
- History of "Black Demon", the Vicious Stallion
- Supplementary Appliances for Kickers
- How to Handle Balkers of Different Types
- How to Handle Confirmed Balkers
- How to Handle Horses that Rear
- Book 4: Shying and Running Away
- Why Horses Shy
- Improper Use of the Whip
- How to Handle an Ordinary Shyer
- How to Handle a Confirmed Shyer
- Why Horses Run Away
- To Teach Command "Steady"
- Spinal Cord Pressure Bride
- How to Use the Single Foot Rope
- How to Handle a Confirmed Runaway
- Book 5: Bad to Shoe and Halter Pulling
- How to Handle a Colt's Feet so He will be Gentle to Shoe
- How to Handle a Horse that is Vicious to Shoe
- Modification of First Form War Bridle
- Modification of Second Form War Bridle
- Excelsior Bridle
- How to Handle a Halter Puller
- Final Test for a Halter Puller
- Bowline Knot
- Bronchos
- Snaring Process
- How to Throw a Lariat
- How to Hitch Bad Horses Single or Double
- Cribbing
- Book 6: Promiscuous Vices
- Tail Switching
- Afraid of Hogs, Dogs, etc
- Afraid of Umbrella and Robes
- Won't Stand Still
- Bad to Bridle
- How to Break Biters
- How to Lead a Horse
- Hard to Back
- Combination Bridle
- Lugging on the Bit
- Tongue Lolling
- Bad to Harness, Curry, Crupper, Clip, Ride, etc
- Book 7: Overcoming Special Fears
- How to Handle Horses Afraid of Automobiles
- How to Handle Horses Afraid of Street and Steam Cars
- How to Throw a Horse by Standing at the Side
- How to Get a Horse under Shafts
- Simple Riding Bridle
- The Hackamore Bridle
- "Old Kate's Confession"
- Book 8: Teaching Tricks
- How to Teach a Horse to Say "Yes" and "No"
- How to Teach a Horse to Gallop, Walk and Trot
- How to Teach a Horse to Appear Vicious
- How to Teach a Horse to Jump, Stand Erect, Fire a Gun and Find a Handkerchief
- How to Teach a Horse to Carry an Article in the Mouth, to Kiss, to Mount a Pedestal, to Teeter-totter
- How to Teach a Horse to Tell His Age, Add, Subtract, etc
- How to Teach a Horse to Lie Down, to Sit Up, to Drive without Bridle or Lines, to Imitate a Balky Horse and to Waltz
- History of "Cyclone", the Kicking Mule
- Prices to Charge
- "Queen's Autobiography"
PDF Reprint #9
1102 Pages
Prof. Magner's Art of
Taming and Educating Horses
(1886)
Prof. Dennis Magner was a world famous horse trainer and tamer during the 1860s to 1880s. He authored several well-known horse training books, among them The Art of Taming and Educating Horses was the most comprehensive one with massive 37 chapters, 1,100 pages and 900 illustrations.
In this book, Prof. Magner introduces "the simplest, most humane and effective system in the world for the subjection of wide and vicious horses, together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc., with a large number of recipes heretofore sold as great secrets".
Contents Covered
Introduction
Methods of Subjection
Colt Training
Excessive Fear and Its Effects
Kicking
Bad to Shoe
Balking
Running away
Halter Pulling
Stallions
Miscellaneous Habits
Teaching Tricks
Horseback Riding
Subjection
Familiar Talk with the Reader
Personal Experience
Breeding
Stabling
Feeding and Watering
How to Tell the Age
Shoeing
Circulation
Diseases and Their Treatment
Diseases of the Joints
Navicular-Joint Lameness
Catarrh
Chronic Cough
Diseases of the Chest
Colic
Diseases of the Nervous system
The Foot: Injuries of and cause of Lameness
Sprains, Bruises, etc
Cuts and Wounds
Diseases of the Eye
Diseases and Injuries of the Skin
Tenotomy
Miscellaneous Recipes
PDF Reprint #10 ~ #18
1900+ Pages in total
The Horse: Its Treatment in Health and Disease
with a complete guide to breeding, training & management
(1905)
The Complete Set of 9 Volumes
Contents Covered
The Exterior of the Horse
Conformation and Its Defects
Varieties of the Horse
Health and Disease
Equine Locomotion
Breeding
Horse Training
Stables
Examination of Horses as to Soundness
The Teeth of the Horse
Warranty
Horse-Shoeing
The Transit of Horses
The Horse and Its Position in the Animal World
The History of the Horse
PDF Reprint #19
133 Pages
The Art of Horse-Shoeing: A Manual for Farriers
(1898)
PDF Reprint #20
71 Pages
A Plain Treatise on Horse-Shoeing with Illustrations
(1856)
PDF Reprint #21
57 Pages
Rational Horse-Shoeing with Illustrations
(1873)
PDF Reprint #22
102 Pages
Shoeing and Balancing the Light Harness Horse
(1916)
PDF Reprint #23
248 Pages
The Art of Taming Horses
(1858)
PDF Reprint #24
62 Pages
The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses
(1858)
PDF Reprint #25
191 Pages
Breaking and Training Horses
(1904)
PDF Reprint #26
406 Pages
The Training and Breaking of Horses
(1912)
PDF Reprint #27
88 Pages
Horse Training by Modern Methods
(1912)
PDF Reprint #28
602 Pages
Veterinary Surgery and Practice of Medicine
(1829)
PDF Reprint #29
120 Pages
The Care of Horses
(1910)
PDF Reprint #30
240 Pages
The Horse in Health, Accident & Disease:
A Thoroughly Practical Guide for Every Horse Owner
(1921)
PDF Reprint #31
91 Pages
Hints on Horses:
How to judge them, buy them, ride them, drive them & depict them
(1906)
Bonus
PDF e-Text
32 Pages
The Arabian Art of
Taming and Training Wild & Vicious Horses
(1856)
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