Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Horse Breeding in Depression-Era Kansas: The Stallions of Elba and E. W. Steele

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 by  Tobi Lopez Taylor Between 1918 and 1948, the U.S. Army Remount Service sent high-quality stallions throughout the nation to be bred to ...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Virginia Bruce, Hollywood Horror Star and Horsewoman: Halloween Edition

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Tobi Lopez Taylor This essay is part of the ongoing Halloween Horror Horsewomen series, which also includes a profile of Martha O ’Driscoll...
Monday, June 10, 2024

Doing Time: How Two Arabian Horses in Arizona Came to Be Owned by Convicts, Part One: JEREMAH 144

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  Tobi Lopez Taylor An Arizona Horse History Project essay Photo by Sean Foster, 2012, courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Spur Cross Conservati...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Trinidad Lopez, the Naco Cemetery, and Arizona's Pleasant Valley War

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Tobi Lopez Taylor  An Arizona History essay The tiny border town of Naco, Arizona, made the news some years ago because a historic ceme...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

*HALIM, the Arabian Stallion Who Pursued Pancho Villa—and Wound Up in a Museum!

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  Tobi Lopez Taylor An Arizona Horse History and Crabbet Chronicles essay An article in the January 23, 1932 New Yorker , titled “Skelet...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Martha O’Driscoll, Hollywood Horror Star and Horsewoman: Halloween Edition

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 by Tobi Lopez Taylor This essay is part of the ongoing  Halloween Horror Horsewomen  series, which also includes a profile of  Virginia Bru...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Of Cats, Cornflakes, and Crabbet Arabian Horses: The Improbable Lives of Hamilton and “Lady” Betty Bassett, breeder of ALILATT AHR 632

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Tobi Lopez Taylor This essay is part of the ongoing Arizona Horse History Project series , which also includes posts on the Arabian Stallio...