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Contents
include: - The Seat or Sticking On
- Riding
on a Slack Rein
- Tact
- Teaching a Horse to Walk Beside You
- The
Barn Raised Colt
- Breaking the Wild Range Colt
- Odd Horses- the
Running W
- Suppling a horse and making him light
- The Sidepass
- Working the Square
- Drunk Man
- Change of Leads
- Two
track
- Standing for Mounting
- Ground Tying
- Advanced Longe
Line Work
- Learning to Ride a Bucking Horse
- Loading in a Trailer
- Roping, Pole Bending, Barrel Racing, Cutting
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browsing the collectible books | Breaking
and Training the Stock Horse
by Charles O. Williamson
Illustrations by Carol Hoobing $85.00
- Autographed by author
- Caxton Printers
1950 copyright - 1962 printing.
- Fourth Edition
- 7.25" x
10.25".
- Hardbound book is very good condition - tight, clean.
- Very
clean and tight inside. No writing, marks or tears except for author's autograph
and inscription to first owner.
- Dust jacket is in near perfect condition.
121 pages "Breaking
and Training the Stock Horse is the first horse training book I ever read.
I was given a first edition copy in 1957 by one of my mentors, a cowgirl who worked
on the King Ranch in Texas. Charles Williamson wrote about
horsemanship and feel and encouraged readers to observe the horse and to think
- way back in the 1950s - before today's Natural Horsemanship movement.
Williamson encouraged trainers to be light and balanced in their riding. One of
the cornerstones of his ground training and mounted training was the turn on the
forehand which many modern clinicians claim is the key to their methods - today
it is called by many names such as disengaging or breaking loose the hindquarters
or yielding, but it is actually a turn on the forehand. Some
of the restraint methods in Williamson's book (which were used in the movie, "The
Horse Whisperer") are not necessary for normal horse training but here
is one of the few books that does discuss them. So for historical interest, this
is a legendary book. I credit Williamson's book with starting
me on the right track - influencing my training philosophies and style to listen
to the horse, to work with the horse and not against him, to develop a
thorough ground training program. I will try to keep copies of this hard-to-find
(out of print) classic available on my website so you too can benefit from Williamson's
good advice."
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