Blackhorse Riders

Download Blackhorse Riders full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Blackhorse Riders ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Blackhorse Riders

Author : Philip Keith
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429940956
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Blackhorse Riders by : Philip Keith

Download or read book Blackhorse Riders written by Philip Keith and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 Silver Medal in History from the Military Writer's Society of America Finalist, 2013 Colby Award Winner of the 2012 USA Best Book Award for Military History Philip Keith's Blackhorse Riders is the incredible true story of a brave military unit in Vietnam that risked everything to rescue an outnumbered troop under heavy fire—and the thirty-nine-year odyssey to recognize their bravery. Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, Alpha Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry, the famed Blackhorse Regiment, was a specialized cavalry outfit equipped with tanks and armored assault vehicles. On the morning of March 26, 1970, they began hearing radio calls from an infantry unit four kilometers away that had stumbled into a hidden North Vietnamese Army stronghold. Outnumbered at least six to one, the ninety-man American company was quickly surrounded, pinned down, and fighting for its existence. Helicopters could not penetrate the dense jungle, and artillery and air support could not be targeted effectively. The company was fated to be worn down and eventually all killed or captured. Overhearing the calls for help on his radio, Captain John Poindexter, Alpha Troop's twenty-five-year-old commander, realized that his outfit was the only hope for the trapped company. It just might be possible that they could "bust" enough jungle by nightfall to reach them. Not making the attempt was deemed unacceptable, so he ordered his men to "saddle up." With the courage and determination that makes legends out of ordinary men, they effected a daring rescue and fought a pitched battle—at considerable cost. Many brave deeds were done that day and Captain Poindexter tried to make sure his men were recognized for their actions. Thirty years later Poindexter was made aware that his award recommendations and even the records of the battle had somehow gone missing. Thus began the second phase of this remarkable story: a "battle" to ensure that his brave men's accomplishments would never be forgotten again. The full circle was completed when President Obama stepped to the podium on October 20, 2009, to award the Alpha Troop with the Presidential Unit Citation: the highest combat award that can be given to a military unit.

The Blackhorse in Vietnam

Author : Donald Snedeker
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504063511
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Blackhorse in Vietnam by : Donald Snedeker

Download or read book The Blackhorse in Vietnam written by Donald Snedeker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This military history chronicles the combat operations of the Blackhorse Regiment, which paved the way for armored cavalry tactics in the Vietnam War. South Vietnam, September 1966. When the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment came ashore at Vung Tau, it faced a number of challenges. In addition to the threat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, the terrain and weather posed their own dangers, adversely affecting the use of bulletproof vehicles and helicopters. The dearth of doctrine and tactics for the employment of armored cavalry in a counterinsurgency was equally challenging—especially during pre-deployment training and initial combat operations. But despite all this, the leaders of Blackhorse Regiment found a way to accomplish their mission. Within a year of their arrival in Vietnam, Blackhorse troopers overcame ambushes that featured anti-tank weapons, numerous landmines, and coordinated assaults. They not only defeated an enemy division twice their size, but also demonstrated how to succeed while operating on and off the roads, in the jungle, and during both the wet and dry seasons. By the spring of 1967, army leaders were beginning to realize the value of troops stationed in Vietnam. And with the Blackhorse Regiment leading the way, armor came to be considered an essential part of the combat team. Written by a Blackhorse veteran, this regiment history features firsthand accounts from soldiers who served in Vietnam and Cambodia.

Rimfire: The Barrel Racing Morgan Horse

Author : Ellen F. Feld
Publisher : Willow Bend Publishing
ISBN 13 : 097090021X
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rimfire: The Barrel Racing Morgan Horse by : Ellen F. Feld

Download or read book Rimfire: The Barrel Racing Morgan Horse written by Ellen F. Feld and published by Willow Bend Publishing . This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rimfire, the sixth book in the Morgan Horse series, takes readers to a whole new realm within the world of horses. When Heather travels to Oklahoma to visit family friends, she is introduced to barrel racing. Falling in love with this quick-paced sport, Heather is thrilled when she returns home and discovers Rimfire, a fabulous Morgan barrel racer that just happens to be for sale. When her parents refuse to buy yet another horse, Heather convinces her friend Nicholas to purchase Rimfire. Everything is going well until Heather decides to take Rimfire to a competition without Nicholas's permission. What will happen to the horse as he makes that final turn around the last barrel, and more importantly, has Heather jeopardized her friendship with Nicholas, all for the sake of a ribbon?

Blackhorse Tales

Author : Don Snedeker
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240437
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Blackhorse Tales by : Don Snedeker

Download or read book Blackhorse Tales written by Don Snedeker and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war stories and combat narratives of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment during five-and-a-half years of combat in Vietnam. When the U.S. Army went to war in South Vietnam in 1965, the general consensus was that counterinsurgency was an infantryman’s war; if there were any role at all for armored forces, it would be strictly to support the infantry. However, from the time the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment arrived in the country in September 1966, troopers of the Blackhorse Regiment demonstrated the fallacy of this assumption. By the time of Tet ’68, the Army’s leadership began to understand that the Regiment’s mobility, firepower, flexibility, and leadership made a difference on the battlefield well beyond its numbers. Over the course of the 11th Cavalry’s five-and-a-half years in combat in South Vietnam and Cambodia, over 25,000 young men served in the Regiment. Their stories—and those of their families—represent the Vietnam generation in graphic, sometimes humorous, often heart-wrenching detail. Collected by the author through hundreds of in-person, telephone, and electronic interviews over a period of twenty-five-plus years, these “war stories” provide context for the companion volume, The Blackhorse in Vietnam. Amongst the stories of the Blackhorse troopers and their families are the tales of the wide variety of animals they encountered during their time in combat, as well as the variable landscape, from jungle to rice paddies, and weather. Blackhorse Tales concludes with a look at how the troopers dealt with their combat experiences since returning from Vietnam. “Without question, Donald Snedeker has paid a fitting tribute to this superb unit, its soldiers, and their families.” —Military Review

Horse

Author : Geraldine Brooks
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399562974
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Horse by : Geraldine Brooks

Download or read book Horse written by Geraldine Brooks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME “A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race, galloping to its conclusion—you just can’t look away.” —Oprah Daily Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award · Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize · A Massachusetts Book Award Honor Book A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack. New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance. Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse—one studying the stallion’s bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success. Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.

Solomon Kane Volume 2: Death's Black Riders

Author : Scott Allie
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1621154718
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (211 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Solomon Kane Volume 2: Death's Black Riders by : Scott Allie

Download or read book Solomon Kane Volume 2: Death's Black Riders written by Scott Allie and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place after the events in Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil—but written to stand on its own—this new tale delves deep into the horrors scattered throughout Germany's Black Forest and adapts two of Robert E. Howard's most beloved Solomon Kane pieces. When Kane comes across gypsies being terrorized by roving bandits, he's not sure what's worse—the bandits who wish to rob and rape innocent travelers or the evils that spew forth from the forest, intent on killing every man and woman around! This book also features the "All the Damned Souls at Sea" Kane comic by Scott Allie, Guy Davis, and Dave Stewart; creature designs by Eisner Award-winning artist Guy Davis; and a new cover by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. • "Solomon Kane is a welcome addition to the other excellent Howard properties produced by Dark Horse."—ComicsBulletin.com

BLACK HORSE INSIDE COOLMORE

Author : WILLIAM JONES
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782805748
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis BLACK HORSE INSIDE COOLMORE by : WILLIAM JONES

Download or read book BLACK HORSE INSIDE COOLMORE written by WILLIAM JONES and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby

Author : James Robert Saunders
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616698
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby by : James Robert Saunders

Download or read book Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby written by James Robert Saunders and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Lewis was champion jockey of the Kentucky Derby in 1875 with a winning race time of two minutes and 37 seconds. Jockey Willie Simms won in 1896, bringing his horse in at two minutes and seven seconds. James Winkfield was the winning jockey in both 1901 and 1902 with winning race times of two minutes and seven seconds and two minutes and eight seconds, respectively. Each of these men possessed the skill and power necessary to spur a horse to glorious victory. All are members of the small, select group of Derby-winning jockeys who were African Americans. The stakes were high: Black jockeys who won a race in the late 1700s and 1800s sometimes won freedom from slavery as well. This work examines the presence of black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, from the first instance of slaves working as stable hands and tending their masters’ horses to the first black jockey to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby in 1875 and the continued participation of black jockeys in the Kentucky Derby. Black owners and trainers in the Kentucky Derby are also discussed. Three appendices list black winning jockeys, black trainers and black owners of Kentucky Derby horses.

Brain Training for Riders

Author : Andrea Monsarrat Waldo
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
ISBN 13 : 1570768390
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Brain Training for Riders by : Andrea Monsarrat Waldo

Download or read book Brain Training for Riders written by Andrea Monsarrat Waldo and published by Trafalgar Square Books. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know there is an area of your brain known as the “Lizard Brain” that thinks only about the immediate moment and your means of survival? Yes, in certain circumstances, your “Rational Brain” can effectively “shut down” and you are at the mercy of a reptile ... dry-mouthed, sweating, queasy, unable to think clearly—even though you know better. When does the Lizard Brain run the show? It can happen in any number of unfamiliar, uncomfortable, challenging, or “stressful” riding situations. But here’s the thing: with the right kind of training, you can learn to manage the reptile within, which leads to greater confidence with horses, better riding performance, and ultimately, happiness at the barn, at shows, and everywhere in between. Andrea Monsarrat Waldo teaches you how to: handle uncomfortable emotions, such as fear, anger, anxiety, and embarrassment; hone your mental game and focus your riding time to get the most out of your hours in the saddle; care for your emotional injuries the same way you would care for an injured horse; and produce a state of “Focused Calm” and tap into the skills you have (whether you know it or not!) to ensure an outstanding ride.

Coal Black Horse

Author : Robert Olmstead
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565126017
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Coal Black Horse by : Robert Olmstead

Download or read book Coal Black Horse written by Robert Olmstead and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robey Childs's mother experiences a premonition about her husband, a Civil War soldier, she sends her only son to retrieve his father from the battlefield, accompanied by a horse that becomes his only companion as he makes his way through the destruction of war.

101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider

Author : Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1603421696
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider by : Jec Aristotle Ballou

Download or read book 101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider written by Jec Aristotle Ballou and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dressage is the ultimate achievement of oneness between horse and rider. Featuring a full arena diagram and step-by-step instructions for each exercise, this sturdy book is designed to allow the rider to hang it on a hook and refer to it from the saddle. You’ll learn how to improve your riding position; master looseness, balance, and suspension; and perfect flying changes as you work toward dressage success.

Blackjack: The Champion Morgan Horse

Author : Ellen F. Feld
Publisher : Willow Bend Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1733767428
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (337 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Blackjack: The Champion Morgan Horse by : Ellen F. Feld

Download or read book Blackjack: The Champion Morgan Horse written by Ellen F. Feld and published by Willow Bend Publishing . This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackjack: The Champion Morgan Horse, the seventh book in the Morgan Horse series, takes the reader to the exciting world of Morgan shows. Blackjack has been winning blue ribbons at all the horse shows this season. His best friend and owner, Heather, feels the magic in the air and just knows that this is their year! She and Blackjack have qualified for the biggest competition out there: The Grand National & World Championship Morgan Horse Show. But with surprises around every turn—from a flock of bullying geese and a runaway horse at a truck stop; a thrilling ride on a barrel racing horse to an action-packed encounter with a swirling tornado—this amazing duo will need talent, skill, and more than a little luck to bring that trophy home.

101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider

Author : Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612121705
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider by : Jec Aristotle Ballou

Download or read book 101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider written by Jec Aristotle Ballou and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting new discipline of Western Dressage lets riders of Western pleasure, work, or competitive horses enjoy the benefits of traditional dressage while using Western tack and attire. This book -- the very first on the topic -- offers 101 fun and effective exercises that will improve every Western horse's suppleness, balance in movement, and responsiveness. Each exercise is presented with illustrated, step-by-step instructions and a full arena diagram, and exercises are organized by focus: softness, looseness, rider development, engagement, adjustability, and ground work. This book is the ultimate reference for this new sport.

55 Corrective Exercises for Horses

Author : Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Books
ISBN 13 : 1570769052
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 55 Corrective Exercises for Horses by : Jec Aristotle Ballou

Download or read book 55 Corrective Exercises for Horses written by Jec Aristotle Ballou and published by Trafalgar Square Books. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated guide to simple yet effective methods for keeping horses sound, healthy, and performing their best. Over time, horses (like people) acquire postural habits, compensate for soreness and injury, and develop poor movement patterns. This limits performance ability, causes unsoundness and health issues, and ultimately undermines the horse's overall well–being. Jec Aristotle Ballou has made a name for herself advocating for the horse and providing sensible instruction in his schooling, conditioning, and care. Her bestselling books and popular clinics are designed to enable any horse person to correctly apply proven principles that bring measurable progress while avoiding boredom and confusion. In her latest collection of mounted and unmounted corrective exercises, Ballou demonstrates how we can actively work to improve the horse's posture and movement, whether he is: An active performance or pleasure mount. An aging or older horse that benefits from gentle exercise. A horse being rehabilitated following injury, illness, or lack of conditioning. Ballou's positive cross–training techniques are free of shortcuts, and her guidelines for analyzing the horse's posture and way of going help readers gain a new awareness of the equine body. Applicable for all disciplines and full of quality color photographs to explain the exercises, this is an integral collection that optimizes how the horse uses his body and helps ensure he stays sounder and healthier for more years of his life.

Better Lucky Than Good

Author : Sylvia Arnett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991476558
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (765 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Better Lucky Than Good by : Sylvia Arnett

Download or read book Better Lucky Than Good written by Sylvia Arnett and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Churchill Downs is the epicenter of Kentucky's equine heritage and the most storied racetrack in the world. More than a thousand workers come to the backside of Churchill Downs on any given day during a meet. Before sunrise, seven days a week, stable hands, hot walkers, grooms, outriders, jockeys, and more tend to the well-being of the horses and the track. Most will never stand in the Winner's Circle. There could be no Kentucky Derby without their contributions.Better Lucky Than Good is the most caring, in-depth look into the lives and stories of equine workers ever published--and it was written by the people who live and work on the backside of Churchill Downs. The book's 32 authors include grooms, hot walkers, exercise riders, a clocker, an outrider, assistant trainers, a jockey, a starting gate crew member, a pony person, a horticulturist, a silks seamstress, shedrow foremen, a tack and saddle man, a security guard, a horse tattooer, trainers, an alcohol and drug abuse counselor, a farm manager, a chaplaincy associate, and many more. "Every person I know who has ever 'written a horse book,' or worked extensively as a journalist covering the world of the track, has at some point had a version of this thought: If somebody would just do a good oral history, interviewing the people who actually work with the horses--the grooms and riders and ferriers and assistant trainers, the folks on the "backside"--it would be worth 10,000 pages of even the best literary description of the sport. Now the Louisville Story Program has done this, and done it beautifully. It's no exaggeration to say that this book has needed to exist for 200 years."--John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead and Blood Horses

Centered Riding

Author : Sally Swift
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312127343
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (273 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Centered Riding by : Sally Swift

Download or read book Centered Riding written by Sally Swift and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-01-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely known for her innovative teaching philosophy stressing body awareness, the value of "soft eyes," proper breathing, centering, and balance, Sally Swift has been a pioneering riding instructor for half a century. In book form for the first time, her methods enable horse and rider to achieve harmony, working together naturally, without pain. Unlike traditional teachers, Sally Swift does not believe in forced training techniques that cause stiff bodies and tense riding. Instead, through the use of vivid, unusual, and highly creative images that transcend mechanics ("Pretend you're a spruce tree; the roots grow down from your center as the trunk grows up"), plus a thorough knowledge of human and equine anatomy, this wise and inspiring teacher enables the conscientious equestrian to reassess habitual responses, in order to ride in natural positions, break through frustrating plateaus, and achieve ever-rising goals with comfort, vitality, and precision. Precise illustrations and photographs never before used in riding books explain anatomy and image work to give mind and body new and relaxed approaches to the inner process of riding. Centered Riding is for those with little experience all the way up to world class.

To Hell on a Fast Horse

Author : Mark Lee Gardner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969532
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis To Hell on a Fast Horse by : Mark Lee Gardner

Download or read book To Hell on a Fast Horse written by Mark Lee Gardner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the sweat of the saddles. ” —Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers No outlaw typifies America’s mythic Wild West more than Billy the Kid. To Hell on a Fast Horse by Mark Lee Gardner is the riveting true tale of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s thrilling, break-neck chase in pursuit of the notorious bandit. David Dary calls To Hell on a Fast Horse, “A masterpiece,” and Robert M. Utley calls it, “Superb narrative history.” This is spellbinding historical adventure at its very best, recalling James Swanson’s New York Times bestseller Manhunt—about the search for Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth—as it fills in with fascinating detail the story director Sam Peckinpah brought to the screen in his classic film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.