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autumn of 1870 to Amasa Sprague of Providence, 

 who sent him to Lawrence, Kansas, where he 

 died September 10, 1876. His skeleton is in the 

 Museum of Natural History at Lawrence. One 

 of the mares bred to Ethan Allen was the famous 

 chestnut, Pocahontas by Iron's Cadmus, who paced 

 to a wagon record of 2.17^ at Union Course, 

 Long Island, June 21, 1855. The fruit was the 

 handsome bay mare Pocahontas, foaled in 1859, 

 who trotted to a record of 2.26f at Boston, 

 July 26, 1866. This mare then passed to Robert 

 Bonner, for a consideration of $40,000, and she 

 was long a shining light of that world-famous 

 stable. She was a great road mare, and I never 

 rode behind a trotter as fast as I did behind her 

 to wagon on the road with Mr. David Bonner 

 driving. I once told the story of that ride in 

 Harper s Magazine and will not repeat it here. 

 Pocahontas trotted a mile for Mr. Bonner in 

 2.i7f, and died without issue. This was always 

 regretted by Mr. Bonner and the admirers of the 

 shapely and true-going bay mare. Among the six 

 standard trotters from the loins of Ethan Allen 

 were Billy Barr, 2.23^, and Hotspur, 2.24. Twenty- 

 two of his sons are producing sires, and fourteen 

 of his daughters are producing dams. 



