Showing posts with label cutting horses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cutting horses. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Ghost Horse - Charley Russell's story from Trails Plowed Under

 Salvete Omnes,



from great American maestro Charles M. Russell's tales and story telling comes this story of  the Crows and ghost horse (published in his book - Trails Plowed Under, available on Archive), where a horse named Paint (and alter Monty) is the protagonist of the story.

















Valete

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Maffet Ledger - Cheyenne warriors counting coup and capturing horses

 Salvete Omnes,




 

a quick canter to the  grassy pages of the Maffet Ledger -  1880s ledger being a collection of drawings done by various Southern and Northern Cheyenne warriors from Oklahoma - it is held at Metropolitan Museum of Arts in NYC

Feats of prowess, including counting coups and capturing horses -  all about the martial culture of the Cheyenne warriors of those epic times as seen through their own eyes. 




and I would like to point you to this fine book - Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889 by Anthnony McGinnis.. - fantastic study of the Plains Indians inter-tribal warfare. 

It can be borrowed [sic!] from Archive World Library or be purchased too - eg Amazon.



Valete