Horses as heroes
Jun. 24th, 2006 11:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoBaxter Black is someone we enjoy reading here, and listening to. I don't always agree with him, and sometimes he gets a bit on the sexist side for my taste, but often he cuts the chase and gets to the point once he gets in a laugh or two. Like most cowboy poets, his point is usually a sharp one. We subscribe to a newspaper from up in Wisconsin that sometimes carries his column, and the one that came today was good enough that I hunted up a copy on the web so I could point it out:
Horses are too good for "Giddy-up"
"Indians had dogs for millennia and never invented the wheel. Coronado gave them the horse and they became warriors. Ask any handicapped kid what it feels like to be a'horseback. Until the catapult, it was as close as man could come to flying. Muscles contract and explode beneath you sweeping you forward like an eagle over the surface of the earth.
"Without the horse the cowboy becomes a herder, Napoleon is infantry, and taxation without representation becomes the sport of kings. The horse is both masculine and feminine. What other animal can be said to prance?"
Horses are too good for "Giddy-up"
"Indians had dogs for millennia and never invented the wheel. Coronado gave them the horse and they became warriors. Ask any handicapped kid what it feels like to be a'horseback. Until the catapult, it was as close as man could come to flying. Muscles contract and explode beneath you sweeping you forward like an eagle over the surface of the earth.
"Without the horse the cowboy becomes a herder, Napoleon is infantry, and taxation without representation becomes the sport of kings. The horse is both masculine and feminine. What other animal can be said to prance?"
