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  • FAQ’sExpand
    • WW1 US Saddlery Contractors
    • McClellan Saddle IdentificationExpand
      • WW1 and Post-War McClellans
      • * Part 2, The Wily Pre-War M1904 *
      • * Part 3, M1904 Artillery Variants *
      • * Part 4, The Model of 1896 *
  • HistoriographyExpand
    • Edward Davis – Cavalry Officer and Chronicler, Part 1
    • Edward Davis – Cavalry Officer and Chronicler, Part 2
    • Davis’ Cavalry Equipment–Past And Present
    • Edward Davis’ History of the McClellan Saddle
  • US Military McClellansExpand
    • Col. Henry Knox Craig and ‘The McClellan Saddle’
    • Before The First McClellan – the Prototype Models of 1856
    • 1857 Trial Model McClellan
    • The Model 1885 McClellan Saddle
    • The Model of 1887 McClellan Artillery Saddle
    • The Model 1893 McClellan Saddle
    • The Model 1896 McClellan Saddle
    • The M1904 Cavalry McClellan ( Pattern I & II )
    • The M1904 Artillery McClellan (Pattern I & II)
    • 1904 McClellan War Contract Saddle (Pattern III)
    • Model 1913 McClellan Mule Riding Saddle
    • The Model 1928 McClellan Saddle
  • Saddle PatternsExpand
    • The US Dragoon Saddle of 1833 & Related Equipment
    • US Pattern of 1841 Horse Equipments
    • The Ringgold Military Saddle
    • The Grimsley Military Saddles
    • US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850sExpand
      • The Campbell Military Saddle
      • Jones and Hope Saddles – The Also-Rans
      • The Delafield Commission
    • THE PHILLIPS PACK SADDLE – MODEL 1924
  • Other InfoExpand
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    • Book Reviews
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Book Reviews

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  • History
  • Biography
  • Weapons/Arms
  • Equipment/Uniforms
  • Horsemanship

History

The Cavalry Horse and his Pack, Lt. Jonathan Boniface, 4th Cavalry, 1903

War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider, Louis A. DiMarco, Westholme Publishing, LLC, 2008

Lincoln’s Cavalrymen: A History of the Mounted Forces of the Army of the Potomac, Edward G. Longacre, Stackpole Books, 2000

Intervention! The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917,
John S. D. Eisenhower, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,1993

My Charger’s Name was Pegasus, A Cavalryman in the OSS, Charles von Bernuth, Merriam Press, 2012

On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield,
Charles M. Haecker, Jeffery G. Mauck, Texas A&M University Press, 1997

The Medieval Warhorse- From Byzantium to the Crusades, Ann Hyland, Grange Books, London 1994

Odyssey of a Philippine Scout: Fighting, Escaping and Evading the Japanese, 1941-1944, Arthur Kendal Whitehead, The Aberjona Press,2006

Frontier Crossroads; The History of Fort Caspar and the Upper Platte Crossing,
McDermott, John D., Endeavor Books, 1997

Perilous Pursuit: The U.S. Cavalry and the Northern Cheyennes,
Stan Hoig, University Press of Colorado, 2002

On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of the U.S.-Mexican War Battlefield, Charles M. Haecker and Jeffery G. Mauck, Texas A&M University Press, 1997

Cossacks in the German Army 1941-1945, Samuel J. Newland, Routledge, 1991

The Rogue’s March: John Riley and the St. Patrick’s Battalion, 1846-48, Peter F. Stevens,2005

Biography

Lieutenant Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander,
Edwin P Ramsey, Potomac Books ,2005

Life of George Bent, Written from His Letters,
George E. Hyde, Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press, 1968

Russian Hussar: A Story of the Imperial Cavalry, 1911-1920,
Vladimir S. Littauer, J. A. Allen & Co. Ltd. London, England., 1965

Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier,
Robert M. Utley, 2001

Weapons/Arms

U.S. Military Arms Inspector Marks, Anthony C. Daum and Charles W. Pate, Andrew Mowbray Publishing, 2016

British Military Flintlock Rifles 1740-1940, DeWitt Bailey, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2002

United States Martial Pistols & Revolvers
Arcadi Gluckman, Stackpole Co, 1960

Equipment / Uniforms

Arming and Equipping The United States Cavalry 1865-1902,Dusan P. Farrington, Andrew Mowbray Publishers, 2005

Uniforms and equipment of the last campaign, 1916: The pursuit of Pancho Villa, William C. Machado, 1993

The American Military Saddle, 1776-1945,
Kenneth L. McPheeters, R. Stephen Dorsey, Collectors Library, 1999

Man Made Mobile: early saddles of western north america,
Richard E. Ahlborn, et.al., Smithsonian, 1980

U.S. Military Saddles, 1812-1943, Randy Steffen, University of Oklahoma Press, 1973

The Horse Soldier, 1776-1943: The United States Cavalryman – His Uniforms, Arms, Accoutrements, and Equipments, Vols. 1-4, Randy Steffen, University of Oklahoma Press, 1977-79

Horsemanship

American Military Horsemanship: The Military Riding Seat of the United States Cavalry, 1792 through 1944,James Ottevaere, AuthorHouse, 2005

Give Your Horse A Chance,
Lt. Col. A. L. d’Endrody, J. A. Allen & Co., 1983

Manual for Stable Sergeants 1917, Mounted Service School, Fort Riley,1917.

The Cavalry Manual of Horsemanship and Horsemastership, Education of the Rider – the Official Manual of the United States Cavalry School at Fort Riley, edited by Gordon Wright, Doubleday, 1962

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  • FAQ’s
    • WW1 US Saddlery Contractors
    • McClellan Saddle Identification
      • WW1 and Post-War McClellans
      • * Part 2, The Wily Pre-War M1904 *
      • * Part 3, M1904 Artillery Variants *
      • * Part 4, The Model of 1896 *
  • Historiography
    • Edward Davis – Cavalry Officer and Chronicler, Part 1
    • Edward Davis – Cavalry Officer and Chronicler, Part 2
    • Davis’ Cavalry Equipment–Past And Present
    • Edward Davis’ History of the McClellan Saddle
  • US Military McClellans
    • Col. Henry Knox Craig and ‘The McClellan Saddle’
    • Before The First McClellan – the Prototype Models of 1856
    • 1857 Trial Model McClellan
    • The Model 1885 McClellan Saddle
    • The Model of 1887 McClellan Artillery Saddle
    • The Model 1893 McClellan Saddle
    • The Model 1896 McClellan Saddle
    • The M1904 Cavalry McClellan ( Pattern I & II )
    • The M1904 Artillery McClellan (Pattern I & II)
    • 1904 McClellan War Contract Saddle (Pattern III)
    • Model 1913 McClellan Mule Riding Saddle
    • The Model 1928 McClellan Saddle
  • Saddle Patterns
    • The US Dragoon Saddle of 1833 & Related Equipment
    • US Pattern of 1841 Horse Equipments
    • The Ringgold Military Saddle
    • The Grimsley Military Saddles
    • US Horse Equipment Trials in 1850s
      • The Campbell Military Saddle
      • Jones and Hope Saddles – The Also-Rans
      • The Delafield Commission
    • THE PHILLIPS PACK SADDLE – MODEL 1924
  • Other Info
    • All Articles
    • Book Reviews
    • Contact The Military Horse