From The Horse's Mouth (Walking a mile in your horse's shoes) may be the best book on horsemanship philosophy since Tom Dorrance's True Unity. A short and easy read this book tells the story of fifteen horses in their own voice, putting the reader in the shoes of the horse. Chief tells the story of how, after an accident, his owner was spooking from things so bad that he began spooking.

Cowboy gatherings started as informal rendezvous where cowboys got together in an informal fashion and swapped true lies, often in the form of poems or songs. A cowboy didn’t need to be invited to these gatherings, he heard about it and just showed up. Everyone was welcome.