LIGHT HORSE

any breed of horse that is used primarily for riding or for light work such as pulling buggies. Light horses have their origin in the Middle East and N Africa. All modern breeds of light horse trace their origins to the Arabian horse, usually through the Thoroughbred. Light horses are classified according to training, e.g., racers, trotters, riding horses, and cow horses. See also pony, American saddle horse, Appaloosa, Morgan, palomino, Pinto, quarter horse, and Standardbred.

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books on: Light Horse  - 43758 results

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Light on a Dark Horse: An Autobiography (1901-1935)
Book by Roy Campbell; H. Regnery Co., 1952
Subjects: Campbell, Roy--1901-1957--Biography, Poets, South African--20th Century--Biography
LIGHT ON A DARK HORSE By the same author: THE FLAMING...TALKING BRONCO ROY CAMPBELL 1924 LIGHT ON A DARK HORSE An autobiography 1901-1935...far the most interesting of all. LIGHT ON A DARK HORSE I FOREBEARS MY MOTHERS name...
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The Death of Crazy Horse: A Tragic Episode in Lakota History
Book by Richard G. Hardorff; University of Nebraska Press, 2001
Subjects: Crazy Horse--Ca. 1842-1877, Indians Of North America--Wars--1866-1895--Personal Narratives, Oglala Indians--Biography, Oglala Indians--History--Sources, Oglala Indians--Interviews, Soldiers--United States--Interviews
...contemporaries, Crazy Horse emerges as a man...medium stature, and light in frame and...below the waist. Of light complex- ion...straight nose, Crazy Horse lacked the prominence...suppose caused Crazy Horse to be killed? Quick as light- ning Garnett...
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Chief Crazy Horse
Book by Chet Cunningham; Lerner, 2000
Subjects: Crazy Horse--Ca. 1842-1877--Juvenile Literature, Oglala Indians--Biography--Juvenile Literature, Oglala Indians--History--Juvenile Literature
...his birth, Crazy Horse was affec- tionately...had a narrow face, light skin, and soft...Oglalas, though not as light as it had been when...good time for a horse-stealing raid. This...after them on their light, fast ponies, catching...Remarkably, Crazy Horse managed to persuade...
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Behind the Guns: The History of Battery I, 2nd Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery
Book by Thaddeus C. S. Brown, Samuel J. Murphy, William G. Putney, Clyde C. Walton; Southern Illinois University Press, 2000
Subjects: Illinois--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories, United States--Army--Illinois Light Artillery Regiment, 2nd--Battery I (1861-1865), United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Artillery operations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories
...127 10 Battery I was a light artillery unit, not a "horse" artillery unit; its members...walked. The 2nd Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery, never served as a...tall, single, with blue eyes, light hair, and a fair complexion, and...
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Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination with Light
Book by Brian Clegg; John Wiley & Sons, 2001
Subjects: Light--Popular Works, Time Travel--Popular Works
LIGHT YEARS AND TIME TRAVEL LIGHT YEARS AND TIME TRAVEL AN EXPLORATION OF MANKINDS ENDURING FASCINATION WITH LIGHT BRIAN CLEGG JW John Wiley Sons, Inc. This book is printed...
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The Zombie In/as the Text: Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse
Journal article by Amy Fass Emery; African American Review, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Books--Criticism and interpretation, Hurston, Zora Neale--Works, Tell My Horse (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...scientific knowledge. Anthropology, in this light, may be seen as a parasitic practice bent...evident in a chapter near the end of Tell My Horse entitled "Doctor Reser." Doctor Reeser...authority, and the theme runs through Tell My Horse. In the first chapter on Jamaica, she laments...
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Crossing Over: Katherine Anne Porter's "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" as Urban Western
Journal article by Catherine Himmelwright; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: City and town life--Portrayals, Denver, Colorado--History, Denver, Colorado--Military aspects, Denver, Colorado--Portrayals, Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Short fiction collection), Porter, Katherine Anne--Works, Urban life--Portrayals, Western fiction, Western stories
...die; this struggle ties "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" to the essence...angry point of light said. I stay. (310-11...environment, she witnesses the light that...inner landscape provides her light and a natural pure environment...
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Color and Light: Huxley's Pathway to Spiritual Reality
Journal article by Sally A. Paulsell; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 41, 1995
Subjects: Authors--Philosophy, Color--Religious aspects, Huxley, Aldous--Philosophy, Light--Religious aspects
...Caravaggio involves a man fallen from a horse: A white, relentless light poured down from a point in the...with the glowing hopefulness of light continues as the three mourners...way to the burial plot. "The old horse drew them; slowly along lanes...
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Intersections: Trimet Interstate Max Light Rail Community History Project
Journal article by Sandy Polishuk; The Oral History Review, Vol. 32, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Intersections: Trimet Interstate Max Light Rail Community History Project (Book)--Book reviews
...transit system opened its new Interstate MAX light rail line in 2004, citizens found that...sleeping unit, which was really just a horse stall" (76). Portland is still a city of...projects, in this case the building of a light-rail line, but the possibilities for tie-ins...
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The Decline of the Urban Horse in American Cities
Journal article by Clay McShane, Joel Tarr; The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 24, 2003
...streetcars required only one horse on light runs, which was a huge...praised new wagons light enough to be pulled...123 By the 1860s one-horse wagons were available...remaining advantage over light trucks: a well trained horse which knew, for example...
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magazine articles on: Light Horse  - 1801 results

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Horse Latitudes: Poems
Magazine article by Brett Foster; The Christian Century, Vol. 124, May 15, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Horse Latitudes: Poems (Book)--Book reviews
...suggests powerfully the way we originate in family narratives. Horse Latitudes opens with an eponymous sequence of 19 sonnets. They...phrase refers to areas just north and south of the equator where light winds and dry weather cause ships to stagnate. Its where Spanish...
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The Books That Changed My Life: Marina Warner Chooses Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Mythologies
Magazine article by Marina Warner; New Statesman, Vol. 138, January 26, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art (Essay collection)--Book reviews, Mythologies (Essay collection)--Book reviews
...me in the way Winds lectures had. Hobby Horse is an exuberant book--exuberant with a...with great seriousness but wonderfully light feet all the same. There, Gombrich passionately...lives--such as a childs toy, the hobby horse of the title. That year, Gombrich became...
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An Unexpected Light
Magazine article by Rex Roberts; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, December 3, 2001
Subjects: An Unexpected Light (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews
...Manhattan on New Years Eve. An Unexpected Light has its charms -- Elliot is a lyrical writer...mountains barely wide enough for a bony horse, sleeping in crowded shelters made of piled...mattresses on which we sat." An Unexpected Light reads best when Elliot simply describes...
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Flucuating Fortunes of the River Horse
Magazine article by Hans Klingel, Keith Eltringham, William Barklow; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995
Subjects: Animal behavior, Animal communication, Animals, Deforestation, Endangered & extinct species, Poaching
...and I watched the hippos leave the water in the evening and then waited for them to return in the morning. Their eyes reflect light, so I could scan the water with a flashlight to find out if and when they had all left. Within a couple of hours after sunset...
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A Dark Horse
Magazine article by Roger Scruton; The American Spectator, Vol. 42, October 2009
Subjects: Homosexuality, Poetry, Poets, Politics
...Dylan Thomas: advocacy that led to the latters immortal radio drama, Under Milk Wood. Campbells autobiography, Light on a Dark Horse, was published in 1950, along with a first vol- ume of his Collected Poems, and a translation of the poems of St...
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Champ Katchit's Back in Spot Light; Horse Power Hurdles Acemay Turn out on Flat
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 16, 2008
Champ Katchits Back in Spot Light; Horse Power Hurdles Acemay Turn out on Flat...summer break and is nowback in on the horse-walker," said King. "Hewill soon be...tough race, butwere very happy with the horse andwe just need it go right on the...
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Derby Delight as Top Quartet Get Green Light :Horse; DARSI & DRAGOG FOR CURRACH
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), June 28, 2006
Derby Delight as Top Quartet Get Green Light :Horse; DARSI DRAGOG FOR CURRACH. Byline: By PETER OHEHIR FRENCH Derby winner Darsi was one of four colts supplemented yesterday...
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Horse Racing: Light Set to Put His Great Leighs Rivals in the Shade
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), December 10, 2008
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
Horse Racing: Light Set to Put His Great Leighs Rivals in the Shade. WEYBRIDGE Light is slowly creeping up the handicap but he is taken to secure his fourth successive victory in the Loch Lomond Handicap at Great Leighs. Trained in Ireland by...
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Horse Racing: New Moon to Light Up Sandown
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), July 3, 2008
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
Horse Racing: New Moon to Light Up Sandown. SPANISH MOON can shine again after a poor run at Royal Ascot by taking the William Ewart Properties Gala Stakes...
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Horse Racing: Intabih Set to Light Up Wolverhampton
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), November 11, 2008
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
Horse Racing: Intabih Set to Light Up Wolverhampton. WOLVERHAMPTON might have lost last Saturdays evening meeting due to floodlight failure, but Intabih can shine...
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encyclopedia articles on: Light Horse  - 43 results

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1.
Light Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LIGHT HORSE any breed of horse that...Africa. All modern breeds of light horse trace their origins to the Arabian horse , usually through the Thoroughbred . Light horses are classified according...
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Lee, Light-Horse Harry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LEE, LIGHT-HORSE HARRY see Lee, Henry . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Palomino Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PALOMINO HORSE American light horse that, contrary to popular opinion, is not a breed but...are common. This coloring occurs in several breeds of light horse. Palominos were probably first selected for their beautiful...
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Arabian Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...HORSE breed of light horse developed in Mesopotamia...parental stock for such light-weight horses as the American saddlebred horse , quarter horse...Intercrossings of these and other light and draft horse breeds with Arabians...
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Thoroughbred Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THOROUGHBRED HORSE breed of light horse more properly known as the English running horse. As its name implies, it was the first pedigreed, or "thoroughbred" horse. It originated in England from crosses between...
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