Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse: Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading (1981)

by Roger L. Welsch

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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.… (more)

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1981

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You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin him once.
--John Klein, sheepshearer

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For Jenny

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Preface: When the work of the world was done with genuine horsepower and men traveled in the saddle, a sound knowledge of horseflesh was serious business; it was a ready source of entertainment too.

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Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners--those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility--and generosity.

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