THE REAL HORSE WHISPERERS - How to tame, gentle and train horses E-Book

W. J. Powell

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Well over 150 years before Robert Redford directed and starred in “The Horse Whisperer”, inspired by Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, Willis J. Powell was whispering to horses and training them much in the way the fictitious character Tom Booker did in the 1985 film. Indeed this volume was first issued in 1848, a hundred and thirty-seven years before the famous movie. By then Powell had been in business for over 30 years.

In this volume Powell and Rarey tell:
How to break and ride colts;
How to tame the most vicious horses and gentle them to all kinds of vehicles or work;
How to break them of kicking or any other bad tricks;
How to teach them tricks or actions; etc., etc.
This volume also has Numerous valuable receipts for diseases of horses as well as tips for farmers dealing with troublesome cows as well as remedies for oxen that lie down, and won’t get up.

As such, we recommend this book to anyone wanting to start a career in Horse Whispering. We also recommend it to young people who are just breaking into equine activities for either pleasure or sport, if only to give a valuable understanding of the nature of the equine breeds.

In this volume Powell recounts how he read of a man who had lived a century earlier who had a secret method of taming horses and he resolved to discover the method for himself. Powell commenced his career as a horse whisperer shortly after 1811 and was so successful he was invited to Mexico to train and tame wild and troublesome horses. Thereafter Powell lived in Mexico for about 12 years, and then travelled to Cuba, Guatemala and California taming horses and making a good living doing so.

10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities.
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Leseprobe

THE REAL HORSE WHISPERERS

ContainingTachyhippodamia BYWILLIS J. POWELLand

THE BREAKING, TRAINING, AND TAMING of HORSESBY

J. S. RAREY

With Numerous Illustrations.Originally published by

W. R. C H A R T E R, PHILADELPHIA[1872]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2019]

The Real Horse Whisperers

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The Secret Of Taming Horses.

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HOW TO:

BREAK AND RIDE COLTS; TAME THE MOST VICIOUS HORSES AND GENTLE THEM TO ALL KINDS OF VEHICLES OR WORK; BREAK THEM OF KICKING OR ANY OTHER BAD TRICKS; TEACH THEM ANY KINDS OF TRICKS OR ACTIONS; ETC., ETC.WITH NUMEROUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS FOR DISEASES OF HORSES, MULES, COWS, ETC.; HOW TO FATTEN HORSES, COWS, ETC.,

HOW TO TEACH TURKEYSAND ANIMALS TO DANCE, HOW TO TAME DEER, ETC., ETC.

Acknowledgements

Abela Publishing

acknowledges the work that

WILLIS J. POWELL

and

J. S. RAREY

did in writing and editing

The Real Horse Whisperers

in a time well before

any electronic media was in use.

10% of the net profit from the sale of this book

will be donated to Charities.

To The Reader

Gentle Reader: The work you are going to peruse is not a voluminous one, neither did I take any pains whatever as to the elegance of the style. I wrote to make myself understood by the unlearned as well as the learned. The price of the work may seem high, on account of the small number of pages it contains: but it must be recollected that it encloses the revelation of a secret that has filled thousands of the wise and unwise with astonishment. I have received, as a gratification, more than two thousand dollars, from several Mexican gentleman, for breaking a single horse, in this manner, in their presence. I shall always feel grateful for the kind and generous reception I everywhere met with, when travelling through their country. From Louisiana to Mexico—from the Californias to Guatemala—and all over the Mexican states, when I have been travelling, I never asked for lodging without its being immediately granted—I never asked for a meal of victuals and was refused: the proprietor of a private house would feel himself injured, if you should offer him money for receiving you. You may except from this rule some poor Indian, who sometimes will admit of your offer, when you insist on his receiving some trifle; but a wealthy farmer, or one a little at his ease, would spurn the idea of selling his hospitality. I speak of none of their qualities but that of hospitality, which by the by, is a great one, and very much recommended by St. Paul. It is true, I lost nearly twenty thousand dollars, which were deposited in a store, by a revolution: but, in what country is a man’s property safe in revolutionary times?

Several Mexican gentleman solicited me to publish this secret in their country, but I constantly refused to do it; for I always intended doing it in my own native country—not doubting but that I should meet with encouragement from my own countrymen. I was always jealous of having the honor of being the first that ever made it known to the world. It is probable that the famous Irish “whisperer,” Sullivan, who died in 1810, possessed the same secret, or some other very much like it, as it appears from the astonishing things related of him, concerning what he did upon horses. The reader will, however, observe, that Sullivan lived in a country where horses were raised as they are in England and in the Northern states: that is, among men and familiar to man. But the horses which I have generally had to deal with, (though I have had every kind,) had been running wild, in the plains and woods, for four, five, six and even ten years, and which, during that time, had never had a rope on them. And besides, the horses of New Spain have always been noted for being remarkably fiery and unmanageable. I have gentled a horse in Texas, which, before that day had, in all probability, never seen a man—a stud of eight or nine years of age, as wild as a deer when taken an hour before. I began the operation, and in one hour made him follow me without pulling him by the halter, and little boys got upon him bare-backed, and saddled and rode him about: in a word, he was a gentle horse. Those horses are called in Spanish Mestenos, (pronounced Mestaneyos and not Mustangs.) What makes me think that Sullivan, as well as he that did the same in England a hundred years ago, made use of the same means as I do, is, that when I was now and then breaking a horse, (which generally took me three or four hours, although, as I said above, I have done it even in half an hour, though rarely,) and afterwards went into a town, the people flocked about to see me, saying to their friends, “This is the man that breaks a horse in half an hour.” Now the same has been published of Sullivan: most probably they mentioned the shortest space of time he had done it in, for it is likewise said of him, that sometimes he shut himself up with the horse all night.

Sometimes I have met with an extremely wild horse, which seemed to be gentled, as by enchantment, in a few minutes. I have gentled one of this description in ten minutes, so as to lead him, make him follow me everywhere I pleased, and ride him with as great safety as if he had been gentled twenty years before. But this is not a general rule.

The reader is here presented, in the explanation of this secret, with a specimen of the wonderful powers of the tact upon animals, and at the same time, with a moral lesson of patience and gentleness—virtues as necessary to get along through life among men, as they are when used in taming horses; and the exception to the general rule—I mean those that are to be treated with rigor—is not, perhaps, less rare. I am fully persuaded, that almost every class of people will reap some benefit or pleasure from the perusal of these pages. The naturalist sees in it a lesson of Nature itself. The moralist admires in it the display of gentleness, patience and perseverance; and every man who rides a horse may some day or other find some advantage in consulting it.

I have endeavored to render this little work as useful as possible, on three accounts. Firstly, on account of the profits arising from the sale of a useful work; secondly, for the credit one gets as the author of something good; and lastly, on account of the satisfaction every generous mind must feel in becoming useful to his fellow creatures. I have been most generously encouraged by the inhabitants of Attakapas, where I had resided so many years. As soon as I began my subscription they almost universally became subscribers. In the town of St Martinsville, only three or four individuals refused to subscribe. In Opelousas I met with a kind reception from most of the people to whom I presented the list for subscription. At Fausse River, Pointe Coupe, Plaquemine, and down to New Orleans, they almost universally subscribed. I shall always feel grateful for their kind reception. Encouragement is the deepest and dearest debt that a writer can incur.

I never declared myself to be the discoverer of this secret till the year 1824, when I arrived in the Mexican states. I had my reasons for so doing. Never did a people express more surprise and astonishment at any extraordinary event, than the Mexicans did at my first performance on my arrival among them; and more especially on account of my being a foreigner; for it is well known that the Mexicans, rich and poor, high and low, pride themselves upon being the best horsemen in the world. And I think there is no foreigner that ever travelled among them, and observed them as I have, but will readily agree in ranking them among the first as to agility, skill and elegance, when mounted upon their beautiful Andalusian steeds. If the Mexican ladies are admired by all foreigners for their natural, easy, unaffected, genteel carriage—surpassing, if possible, in that respect, the elegant Louisiana ladies—so does the Mexican, when mounted on a fine Xaral steed, equal, if not surpass, any other rider in the world. For this very reason, I was everywhere received with the greatest cordiality and applause, for no people knew how to appreciate better than they a discovery of so surprising a nature.

I wish the reader to observe, that in explaining the operation of the secret of gentling a horse, I have always supposed the horse to be one that required the whole secret, in order to be gentled, though a man meets with many that do not require one-third of what I there lay down: but it is better to do too much than too little in this case, so I shall say no more about it here. Vale, ya es tarde, buenas noches tenga usted senor caballero.

Willis J. Powell

Contents

Acknowledgements

To The Reader

Tachyhippodamia

Observations Upon Horses In General: And What Led Me To The Discovery Of Breaking Them In A Short Time

The Secret

Refractory Horses Gentled For A Long Time In The Common Way

A Skittish Horse

A Horse That Will Not Suffer His Ears To Be Touched

To Break A Horse Of Kicking

How To Manage A Horse That Kicks Up, So As To Break Him Of That Vicious Habit

To Handle A Horse’s Feet That Is Apt To Kick

To Teach A Horse, So That He Will Not Let A Person Dressed In A Certain Manner Come Nigh Him

To Teach Your Horse, So That He Will Let No One But Yourself Come Near Him

To Prevent A Horse From Pulling Upon His Bridle-Reins, In Order To Break Them

The Mexican Mode Of Preventing A Horse From Breaking His Bridle

How To Manage A Horse That Gets The Studs, Or One That Stops And Will Not Advance A Step When You Put Him To A Plough, &C.

How To Teach A Horse To Lie Down At The Word Of Command

How To Teach A Horse To Count Any Number

Easy Mode Of Fattening A Horse In A Short Time

A Remedy For A Horse That Will Not Fatten, Though Well Fed

To Prevent A Horse’s Back From Getting Sore, Even On A Long Journey

How To Treat A Horse Upon A Journey

A Horse That Is Apt To Stumble Through Carelessness

How To Break A Mule By The Secret: And The Difference There Is To Be Observed Between A Mule And A Horse

How Thales, One Of The Seven Wise Men Of Greece, Corrected A Mule Of The Habit Of Lying Down Every Time It Passed A Certain River

How To Make A Dull Horse Appear Mettlesome And Full Of Fire For A Short Time

That Part, Or Those Parts Of The Mexican States In Which The Best Race Of Horses Is To Be Found, And Some Of Their Qualities

Caution To Be Observed, In Cutting Or Paring The Hoofs Of Your Horses In This Country, Where Horses Generally Go Unshod

Caution To Those Who Raise Horses Or Mules

To Accustom A Horse To Stay In A Place

To Make A Gentle Horse, Not Used To A Carriage, Go In It

A Horse That Stops, And Refuses To Go, When In A Carriage

A Mode Of Breaking Wild Horses, Very Different From That Discovered By Me

Another Mode Of Breaking A Horse For A Few Hours

Advice To Farmers, Concerning The Gentling Of Young Cows

The Astonishing Manner In Which I Tamed Or Gentled A Wild Deer

A Remedy For An Ox That Lies Down, And Won’t Get Up

A Curious Method Of Teaching Turkies To Dance At The Sound Of The Triangle Or Any Other Musical Instrument

Remedy For The Gripes, Or Colic

Concerning The Bots

The Blind Staggers

Taming Of Wild Horses

The Three Fundamental Principles Of My Theory

How To Succeed In Getting The Colt From Pasture

How To Stable A Colt Without Trouble

Time To Reflect

The Kind Of Halter

Remarks On The Horse

Experiment With The Robe

Suggestions On The Habit Of Smelling

Prevailing Opinion Of Horsemen

Powel’s System Of Approaching The Colt

Remarks On Powel’s Treatment.—How To Govern Horses Of Any Kind

How To Proceed If Your Horse Be Of A Stubborn Disposition

How To Halter And Lead A Colt

How To Lead A Colt By The Side Of A Broken Horse

How To Lead A Colt Into The Stable And Hitch Him Without Having Him Pull On The Halter

The Kind Of Bit, And How To Accustom A Horse To It

How To Saddle A Colt

How To Mount The Colt

How To Ride The Colt

The Proper Way To Bit A Colt

How To Drive A Horse That Is Very Wild And Has Any Vicious Habits

On Balking

To Break A Horse To Harness

How To Hitch A Horse In A Sulky

How To Make A Horse Lie Down

How To Make A Horse Follow You

How To Make A Horse Stand Without Holding

Tachyhippodamia

In the year 1811, whilst residing in Georgia, I read an account of a man who lived more than a hundred years ago, who would take any wild horse, and shut himself up with him in a small yard or stable, and at the end of a few hours, come out with the horse perfectly gentle. Nothing was ever known about the means he employed in gentling him, for he died without ever communicating his secret to anyone. I always possessed a great share of curiosity: therefore, as well to gratify it as to become useful to myself and others, I made a great many experiments upon young horses, but without success. I ran great risks in these experiments, but the danger, far from discouraging me, animated me the more to make new trials. At the end of the year 1811, I came to Louisiana,where there were many wild horses. I renewed my experiments. After having met with many difficulties, I discovered a secret in 1814, on my plantation in the Attakapas, by which I broke a horse in three hours. The horse always remained gentle. By the same method, I broke another; but two days after, I found him almost as wild as ever. This perplexed me very much—why one horse should remain gentle and the other not. I broke two more, and undertook a fifth, which I abandoned after several trials. This took place between seven and nine o’clock in the morning. I then thought the application of the secret ought to be varied. Accordingly, after having adopted and rejected a great many ways of applying it, I fell upon one which proved to be the best. At eleven o’clock, I went in again to the horse; but when he saw me, he reared and pitched and kicked in a most terrific manner. I stopped, notwithstanding, stood still a few minutes, and then began the operation, and saw, with pleasure, that at half past four he was perfectly gentle, and always remained so; for I had already discovered this last most important part of the secret—of having them always remain gentle—and I never have revealed it to any living person.

To give an idea of this mode of gentling horses, I will relate a few circumstances of the last mentionedhorse. He was going on eight years old, had always run in the prairie since he had been branded, was a stud of a most fiery, ferocious disposition, and had never been roped from the time he had been branded. To get him into the yard where I gentled him, we were obliged to tie his legs and drag him in, and no one durst go into the yard where he wa [...]