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at once intelligible to every one who may think proper to pemsa 

 its contents. 



I claim the honor of being the only horse-trainer or teacher of 

 horsemanship who ever advanced the idea of introducing his 

 methods to the United States Government. If they are used ac- 

 cording to my instructions, they will be of great benefit to the 

 Government. 



This is a day of progression. Men are respected in proportion 

 to their education, intelligence and usefulness ; governments are 

 respected for the soundness of their constitutions and intelligence 

 of their laws and enforcement of the same, and the size and 

 efl&ciency of their armies. The soldier who receives a careful 

 training and useful education in military science and conducts 

 himself properly, is respected, trusted and promoted. I contend 

 that the soldier's education has not been completed until he has 

 a thorough knowledge of the great art of horse-training and 

 educating his horse, for he should be to him a daily companion. 

 By a thorough knowledge of the great art, to which I allude, he 

 is capable of judging the most intelligent, hardy and useful 

 horse for his department of the service. The more useful the 

 animal to his master, the more companionable and highly appre- 

 ciated. The better the horse, the better the master. I have 

 written this book from an experience of over seventeen years in the 

 study of the training and education of the horse, and if these 

 instructions are put to practical use, they will improve the mili- 

 tary service in all departments in which horses are used. 



My one aim and object is to get my methods of training the 

 noble and intelligent horse before the people of this country, for 

 I feel by so doing lasting good will be done the poor, unappreci- 

 ated dumb brute; and though he can never know the good 

 I shall have done him, his master will be able to appreciate the 

 benefit. 



Permit me to state briefly that I have traveled all over the 

 United States, and have given public exhibitions in all of the 

 principal cities and towns. I have handled over twenty thousand 

 of the most vicious kickers, balkers, strikers, plungers, biters, 

 bolters, shyers, and horses pogsessing all other vicious habits 



