4 88 THE MORGAN HORSE 



premium at the New York State fair, 1853, and also at Addison County (Vt.) 

 fair, 1855. He is spirited, but exceeding gentle and tractable. Whole 

 figure good. Head and neck beautiful. Style and action fine. Time 2 148 ". 



GREEN MOUNTAIN BLACK HAWK 



Black, 15 hands, 1150 pounds; foaled June i, 1854; bred by Charles 

 Needham 2d, Addison, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk Chief, son of Black Hawk : 

 dam chestnut, bred by Noah S. Porter, Ferrisburgh, Vt., got by Young Tele- 

 scope (owned by N. G. Needham, Vergennes, Vt.), son of old Telescope; 

 2d dam bay, brought to Ferrisburgh from eastern Vermont and said 

 by the party who brought her 'to be by Justin Morgan. Taken by 

 Mr. Needham to De Kalb, 111., fall of 1854. Kept two seasons in St. 

 Clair Co., 111. Sold, 1873, to Elder Cannon, who took 'him to Salt Lake City, 

 Utah, where it is thought he died. A solid, strong, well-made horse ; stock 

 very much like him, generally black, and good roadsters. 



CHARLIE NEEDHAM (BLACK HAWK CHARLIE) 

 Black, 15 hands, 1000 pounds ; foaled June, 1861 ; bred by M. L. Taylor, 

 Butler Co., la. ; got by Green Mountain Black Hawk, son of Black Hawk 

 Chief : dam Pocahontas, dam of Flying Black Hawk, which see. Taken 

 to California, in 1862, by C. E. Needham, who sold to Needham & Fields. 

 Kept in San Joaquin Co., Cal., where he left much good stock. 



FLYING BLACK HAWK 



Black with white hind feet, 15^ hands, 1000 pounds; foaled June 8, 

 1854; bred by Charles Needham 2d, Addison, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk 

 Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam Pocahontas, black, bred by A. Hinds, Addi- 

 son, Vt., got by Black Hawk ; 2d dam bay with white face, said to be by Wood- 

 bury Morgan. Taken, fall of 1854, to De Kalb, 111., where Mr. Needham sold 

 a half interest to C. E. Needham. Kept at De Kalb, and one season at 

 Galesburg, 111. ; finally sold to Wm. Bosworth, Bloomington, 111. Died about 

 1870. Very stylish and fast. 



GEN STARK 



Black, 15 hands, 950 pounds; foaled 1854; bred by Bela Howe, Shore- 

 ham, Vt. ; got by Black Hawk Chief, son of Black Hawk : dam bred by Bela 

 Howe, got by Black Hawk ; 2d dam the dam of Hard Road, which see. 

 Owned by George H. French, Boston, Mass., and, 1857-58, by W. E. Small, 

 Iowa City, la. In State fair at Muscatine, la., 1857, he distanced all com- 

 petitors no time and received the ist premium. Died 1858. W. E. 

 Small writes : " Gen. Stark was the handsomest horse I ever saw ; have heard 

 dozens of men say they had seen pictures of horses overdrawn till they saw 

 Stark. He was very intelligent and speedy, and had he lived would have 

 made a low record". 



Sire : Tyler's Black Hawk, 2. 



BLACK HAWK (TYLER'S) 

 Black; foaled about 1858 ; bred by Jerry Tyler, Iowa City, la. ; got by 



