Hoofprints Horse Poems

Name: Hoofprints Horse Poems
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ISBN: 9780060534073

ISBN-10: 0060534079

ISBN-13: 9780060534073

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jessie Haas

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Saddle up, ride back with me. You take the Thoroughbred you have lessons on; I'll ride my fat Morgan. Jessie Haas's invitation is an opportunity for adventure -- a ride back in time through 65 million years of horse history. Meet eohippus, the small, brown-spotted, four-toed ancestor of the modern horse. Watch a youth of ancient times -- courageous, determined, awed -- be the first to attempt to ride a wild horse. Hear the thunder of Genghis Khan's horde riding by and the clang of knights jousting in a tournament. Most of all, feel the love that has existed between humans and horses for thousands of years. It reveals itself as a lonely man lets a colt into his kitchen, as a…

Book details

List price: $16.89
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Ride Back with Me


How the World Makes Horses


The Grandmother


I Just Wonder


Evolution


It's Alimentary: PowerPoint Presentation by Miohippus, late Oligocene Epoch


Global Warming: What Survives Is Also Beautiful


Przewalski's Horse


Endless Grasses


Two Legs


The Great Hunt


Rope Halter


The Colonists


First Rider


She Said


Moss


New Words


Loose


Information Superhighway


Song to My Horse


Bone Story


The Horse Camps Glitter


Who Wears the Pants?


The Bow-legged Girl


Forever


Revolution


Horse and Ox


Eagle Speaks


The Hoofprint of Pegasus


(No) Contest


Messenger


Hittite Chariot Horse


Proof


The Race before Troy


The Knife Cuts Both Ways


Hakma, Stigrup


Afraid of His Shadow: King Philip First Sees Alexander's Greatness


Winged Team


A Legend of the Great Wall


Pack Ponies


Roman Riders


Earnhardt, Adorandus


Ways of Mounting


Horse, Soldier, Arrow


Is That So?


Blessings


Solomon's Horses in Mohammed's Army


North Sea Farmers


The Fearful Knight


Muzzled


Riding with the Horde


Out of the East


A Claim Not Made by UPS or FedEx


During the Delhi Sultanate


A Lady Laments the Changing Times


The Black Mare's Milk


Something to Remember When Aliens Land


Jingle Bells in Tenochtitlan


Bright with Bones


Treasure


The Spanish Armada Retreats


On the Death of Major General Humphrey Atherton of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Author's First White American Ancestor


Flare-up


Gladdening


Painted Horses


Unnatural


One Master


The Gun


To Water


The Groom


1848


Foxhunt


Road Apples


M.A.D.D. (Modernity Against Drunk Driving)


Clever Hans


Foolish Creatures


Abandoned, 1919


Hands


Big Top


The Dutch Horse


Triumph


Company for Breakfast


Means of Transport


Epona Considers Her Current Position


Advice to a Young Woman


Horse Whisperer


He Races


He Organizes His Herd of Three


This Rider


West Palm


Therapeutic


Mangalarga Marchador


Innocent Engines of War


Behind the Supermarket


Efficient


Peasant Eyes


Down the Side Street


Dappled Things


Race Riders


Buzkazhi


If Required


The Mid-Air Moment


The Color of Heaven


Afterword


Glossary


Bibliography