The proudest names of civilized languages when literally
translated mean "horseman": eques, caballero, chevalier,
cavalier. Until just yesterday the Man on Horseback had been
for centuries the symbol of power and pride. The advent of the
horse, from Spanish sources, so changed the ways and
psychology of the Plains Indians that they entered into what
historians call the Age of Horse Culture. Almost until the
automobile came, the whole West and Southwest were dominated
by a Horse Culture.
Material on range horses is scattered through the books listed
under "Range Life," "Stagecoaches, Freighting," "Pony
Express."
No thorough comprehension of the Spanish horse of the Americas
is possible without consideration of this horse's antecedents,
and that involves a good deal of the horse history of the
world.
BROWN, WILLIAM ROBINSON. _The Horse of the Desert_ (no
publisher or place on title page), 1936; reprinted by
Macmillan, New York. A noble, beautiful, and informing book.
CABRERA, ANGEL. _Caballos de America_, Buenos Aires, 1945. The
authority on Argentine horses.
CARTER, WILLIAM H. _The Horses of the World_, National
Geographic Society, Washington, D.
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