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Post by marklemon on Aug 20, 2008 9:26:30 GMT -5
Does anyone out there have a good source on the specific breed of horses used by the Texians, and their Mexican counterparts? I am researching this topic as a part of my next book (The Sketchbook of The Alamo and Texas Revolution).
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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Post by billchemerka on Aug 20, 2008 18:32:30 GMT -5
Contact the folks via the various links on the "New Mexican Horse Project" website.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Aug 20, 2008 20:13:49 GMT -5
I'm not sure the Texians or the Mexicans used a specific breed during the revolution. In my research
on the rangers, they seemed to grab whatever was available. I believe there was a wide mixture of
Spanish mustang, Spanish barb, American quarter horse and other breeds. I am unaware of a web
source, but there are a lot of books out there.
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Post by tmdreb on Aug 20, 2008 23:02:44 GMT -5
Sorry it's not specifically related to breed, but wasn't one of the reasons why M. Lamar was able to save the wounded and dismounted Walter P. Lane that his horse was much larger than what the Mexicans were using? He did use it to ram the mount of a Mexican who was about to kill Lane.
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Post by TRK on Aug 21, 2008 12:06:32 GMT -5
Mark, There's an article in the book Mustangs and Cow Horses, edited by J. Frank Dobie et al., titled "Mexican Color Terms for Horses." This is probably esoteric stuff for your purposes, but it does illustrate the large variety of terms the old-time Mexicans used to describe horse colorings, e.g., "Manchado--white, with large patches containing sparse black hairs, not enough to constitute gray, but sufficient to give a discolored appearance ('soiled' or 'splotched').
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Post by sloanrodgers on Aug 21, 2008 21:48:38 GMT -5
That's a good source. It seems to me that many people back then would have been more inclined to describe a horse by its function (cow horse), color (bay) or markings than the horse's actual breed. I might be way off in this thinking though, so don't quirt me.  |
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Post by marklemon on Aug 23, 2008 14:44:35 GMT -5
Tom,
Thanks for that reference. I'll look into obtaining a copy. That "esoteric" stuff is just what I'm looking for!
Mark
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Post by doc on Aug 26, 2008 8:21:40 GMT -5
Mark, it's hard to find nowadays, but Malcolm D. McLean's FINE TEXAS HORSES: THEIR PEDIGREES AND PERFORMANCE, 1830-1845 (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1966) includes useful information. You might try inter-library loan.
Doc
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Post by Allen Wiener on Aug 26, 2008 10:59:35 GMT -5
I found a few copies listed here in the $20 range: www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&st=sl&qi=ku3EA,HmnTXdf2Hu0.erfr.LZyM_9207041216_1:1:2&bq=author%3Dmalcolm%2520d%2520mclean%26title%3Dfine%2520texas%2520horses%2520their%2520pedigrees%2520and%2520performance%252C%25201830%2D1845 Click on the price in the right-hand column to get full ordering details. AW |
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