Spirit of the horse: a celebration in fact and fable

Introduction: the zen of risk

The four-legged Olympian

Tachyhippodamia / William J. Powell

My first time

Experience of two boys in managing horses, with many anecdotes of quadrupedal intelligence / Thomas W. Knox

The winged horse

Pegasus, the horse who could fly / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

The horse and the olive / James Baldwin

The horse, hunter, and stag / Aesop

The world is a carousel

The fox and the horse / the Brothers Grimm

The black horse / Joseph Jacobs

Alexander and Bucephalus

The war horse of alexander / edited by Andrew Lang

Of war horses, or destriers / Michel de Montaigne

Wild horses

Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift

Horsing around on the set

The horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce

The mind of the horse

Mr. Stiver's horse / James Montgomery Bailey

The horse as hero ... not

Don't look a gift-horse in the mouth / Harry Graham

My great day

Samuel Cowles and his horse royal / Eugene Field

To horse / Frances and Gertrude Warner

Blind faith

"White dandy"; or, master and I / Velma Caldwell Melville

The stable as cathedral

A race horse that paid a church debt / Clarence Louis Cullen

The reign of the reining horse

Only the mare / Alfred E. T. Watson

Little Sure Shot

The life of Hon. William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, the famous hunter, scout and guide, an autobiography / William F. Cody

The Blue Grass Seminary girls' vacation adventures; or, Shirley Willing to the rescue / Carolyn Judson Burnett

Born in the saddle

How the old horse won the bet / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Four horses and a sailor / Jack London

The uncertainty factor

A military steeple-chase / Captain R. Bird Thompson

Our horses, our selves

"Whooping" a race-horse under the wire / Clarence Louis Cullen

The spirituality of the horse.