After moving to a new house, a man named Wilbur finds the previous owner left behind a horse. It’s Mister Ed, a talking horse! But Ed will talk only to Wilbur, meaning confusion and hijinks soon ensue.
Up in Wyoming, the Cheyenne’s Frontier Days festival featured bronco riding, a wild horse race, stage hold-up, hanging bee, cow-pony races, etc. and other rodeo events.
Get a Wonder Horse, and you’ve made your cowboy’s happiest dreams come true… Wonder Horse makes the world’s most popular toy horses. All 17 models promise instant joy on Christmas morning — and lasting year-round enjoyment!
Before air conditioning and refrigerators existed, here’s how peolple managed to stay cool during the great New York heat wave of 1911.
How did the Kentucky Derby get started? Now, the famous Louisville horse race is the first part of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, but when it started, people didn’t know how important and iconic the Derby would eventually become. Here’s a look back at its history.
Vintage weathervanes were made in almost every conceivable design and pattern. Horses, cows, deer, eagles, ships. roosters and even pigs were hammered in metal and used to register the direction of the wind.
‘Superman’ star Reeve paralyzed in fall from horse Charlottesville, Va — Actor Christopher Reeve, star of “Superman” movies, was paralyzed and breathing with the help
Staunton to Have Many at Vet Reunion Unveiling of Lee equestrian statue in Charlottesville tomorrow to be preceded by big parade, Company L, and Stonewall
While the “finale” in the original article title refers to the fact that this was Clark Gable’s last movie — he died just 12 days after filming of The Misfits ended — looking back, we can see that the phrasing was oddly (and sadly) prescient: Time would eventually reveal that this was Marilyn Monroe’s final film role, too.
A man drinking a bottle of Schlitz beer …while smoking a cigar Schlitz Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Horse-drawn delivery trucks carrying beer
The Rough Riders of all nations (1900) Marshall — one day only: Saturday, September 22 Buffalo Bill’s world-famous Wild West and congress of Rough Riders
Tom Mix becomes a roping Romeo The full breath of the big ranches with their stirring horsemen, their daring deeds, their ambitions, are combined with
Some roll Tom Mix made a daring ride on his horse Tony, down a 200 foot embankment for a scene in his latest William Fox
Prof. E K Crocker’s educated horses, ponies, donkeys & mules Prof. E K Crocker and his school of educational Arabian horses will appear at Black’s
Why not to borrow a friend’s horse Borrowing a friend’s horse, or even accepting the loan of one, is a very risky business — for
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