Sneaking around is the rule for horse-hunters… and it ain’t easy. As anyone who has spent time with horses knows, our silent partner is quite alert to potential lions in the flower-pots. The horse’s creed is “he who quickly runs away, lives to run another day,” and he instinctively knows his survival depends upon a good headstart.
Horsemanship is a foundation skill of civilization. Our partnership with horses has been a multi-societal, millennia-old exercise in coming to terms with something outside ourselves–no doubt a good thing.
Unlike dogs and cats, horses have not been “domesticated” so much as tamed. The horse is an ancient species and has never surrendered his basic nature. For [...]
This post begins a timeline to discuss the various eras traveled in “Eclipsed by Shadow,” and the rest of “The Legend of the Great Horse” trilogy. The first era is Pre-History.
Man’s long, colorful relationship with the horse is revealed in one of humanity’s oldest creative impulses: Art. The equine image has adorned virtually every medium [...]
