The American Horsewoman

by Elizabeth Karr

• Pace, the, [21], [197], [218].
• Pantaloons, a lady's, [58].
• Petticoat, the riding, [58].
• Placing the saddle, [71], [93].
• Plunging, [176], [284].
• Pommels to saddle, [69].
  • use of, [70], [73], [100], [116].
• Position of limbs should be taught by a lady, [144].
• Positions on horseback, [129], [133], [137].
  • original, of reins, [150], [154], [161], [166].
• Pressure on horse's mouth, changes of, to be gradual, [174], [195].
• Pupil and teacher, [142].
• Purchase of horse, [18], [30].

• Racing trot, [198].
• Rack, the, [21], [218].
• Raising the horse's head, [174].
• Rearing, [286].
• Rein, to loosen or tighten one, when double bridle is in left hand, [162].
• Reining back in the walk, [184], [193].
• Reins, changing the, [156].
  • curb and bridoon in one hand, [160].
  • dead pull upon, [169].
  • double, one in each hand, [166].
  • double, to change from left to right hand, [164].
  • double, to change from right to left hand, [164].
  • double, to separate, and hold one of each in a hand, [165].
  • holding the, [145].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, [152].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, original position of, [154].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, to separate, [158].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, to stop the horse, [156].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, to turn to the left, [155].
  • snaffle, both in one hand, to turn to the right, [155].
  • snaffle, one in each hand, [149].
  • snaffle, one in each hand, original position of, [150].
  • snaffle, one in each hand, to stop the horse, [152].
  • snaffle, one in each hand, to turn to the left, [151].
  • snaffle, one in each hand, to turn to the right, [151].
  • to change quickly, [158], [165].
  • to change snaffle from left to right hand, [156].
  • to change snaffle from right to left hand, [157].
  • to hold, in flying gallop, [247].
  • to return snaffle, to the left hand, [157].
  • to shorten the curb and lengthen the snaffle, [162].
  • to shorten the snaffle and lengthen the curb, [163].
  • to shorten or lengthen the curb and snaffle, [162].
  • to shorten or lengthen the snaffle, [159].
  • when to give more liberty of, [175].
• Remarks, on exercise of horse, [50].
  • on grooms, [44], [50], [97], [305].
  • on the stable, [44], [47].
  • on training the horse, [34], [35], [43].
• Restiveness, [173].
• Rider's body, movements of, [6].
  • figure, style of, [18].
  • natural, [8].
• Riding basque, [53].
  • boots, [59]
  • coiffure, [61].
  • corsets, [60].
  • dress, fabric for, [57].
• Riding, does not produce coarseness in rider, [9].
  • drawers, [59].
  • erroneous ideas concerning, [7].
  • first lessons in, [22], [125], [149], [217].
  • gauntlets, [64].
  • habit, [52].
  • habit, shirt, [59].
  • habit, skirt of, [55].
  • habit skirt, how to hold, [65].
  • habit, waist of, [53].
  • hair in, [61].
  • hat, [62].
  • jacket, [53].
  • pantaloons, [58].
  • petticoat, [58].
  • whip, [66], [308].
• Rising in the saddle in English trot, [207].
• Running away, [288].
• Running walk, [20].

• Saddle-flaps, [76].
• Saddle, girthing the, [77], [93].
  • lady's, [68], [93].
  • length of, [72], [73].
  • off-pommel to, [75].
  • placing the, [71], [93].
  • seat to the, [72].
  • second pommel to, [68], [75].
  • third pommel to, [68], [73], [74].
  • to adjust the, [71], [93].
  • to rise in the, in English trot, [207].
  • weight of the, [76].
  • width of the, [73].
• Safety stirrups, [79].
• Seat, correct one for a lady, [118].
  • on horseback, [114].
  • to saddle, [72].
• Separation of the reins, [165].
• Shirt, the riding-habit, [59].
• Short stirrup-leather, [74].
• Shying, [273].
• Skirt, foot-loop in, [56].
  • holding the, [65].
  • of the riding habit, [55].
• Snaffle-bit, [84], [148].
  • when best to use, [148], [170].
• Spring-bar attachment to stirrup-leather, [80].
• Spur and whip, [294].
• Stable, ladies visiting the, [44].
• Stalls for horses, [47], [49].
• Standing leap, [249], [253].
• Stirrup, [74], [79].
  • irons, [81].
  • leather, [74], [81].
  • leather, spring-bar attachment to, [80].
  • leather, too long, [74], [139].
  • leather, too short, [74], [136].
• Stokes' mode of girthing the saddle, [77].
• Stop in the canter, [236].
  • the English trot, [212].
  • the flying gallop, [248].
  • the walk, [191].
• Stumbling, [176], [292].
• Style of the rider's figure, [18].
• Support, [168], [173], [313].

• Teacher and pupil, [142].
• Temperaments of the horse, [22].
• The Arab horse, [16], [23].
• The canter, [222].
• The gallop, [238].
• The horse, [13].
• The kind of horse to purchase, [18], [30].
• The leap, [249].
• The low-bred horse, [23].
• The saddle and bridle, [67].
• The seat on horseback, [114].
• The thoroughbred, [23].
• The trot, [197].
• The walk, [181].
• Third pommel, [68][-74], [121], [202].
• Thorough and low bred, differences, [23].
• Tight corsets prevent good riding, [6].
• To change reins quickly, [158], [165].
• To collect the horse, [170], [177].
• To hold the riding-skirt, [65].
• To manage the horse with the various reins, [145].
• To rise in the saddle in the English trot, [207].
• Too long stirrup-leather, [74], [139].
• Too short stirrup-leather, [74], [136].
• To turn the horse to the left, [151].
• To turn the horse to the right, [151].
• Training horses, humane, [35].
  • remarks on, [34], [35], [42].
  • to stop at the voice, [43].
• Treatment of horse, [34], [35], [42].
• Trot, circling to the left, [216].
  • circling to the right, [215].
  • country-jog, [21], [198]
  • English or rising, [21], [200], [207].
  • French or cavalry, [21], [199], [203].
  • the flying, [198].
  • the true, [199].
  • to canter from the, [232].
• Trotting in a circle, [214].
• True trot, [199].
• Turns in the canter, [233], [234].
  • dangers of, in the flying gallop, [242], [248].
  • in the hand gallop, [240].
  • in the walk, [187].

• United canter, [234].
• Unsoundness of horses' feet and legs, [23].
• Unsteadiness of horse while being mounted, [290].
• Use of pommels, [70], [73], [100], [116], [202].

• Victoria stirrup, [79].

• Waist of riding habit, [53].
• Walk, reining back in, [184], [193].
  • running, [20].
  • stopping in the, [191].
  • the, [181].
  • the advance in the, [184].
  • turning in the, [187].
• Weight of the saddle, [76].
• What gaits to train a lady's horse in, [20].
• When best to use the curb, [170], [174], note [178].
  • best to use the snaffle, [148], [170].
• When to give more liberty of reins, [175].
• Which is the leading foot, [209].
• Whip, the lady's, [66].
  • the lady's, how to hold, [66].
• Whipping the horse, [295].
• Whip and spur, [294].
• Why some women do not enjoy riding, [6].
• Width of saddle, [73].
• Wrong positions on horseback, [115], [128].

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] A very interesting work, by C. A. Piétrement, has recently been issued in France, entitled Les chevaux dans les temps prehistorique et historique. The author shows that wild horses were hunted and eaten by man in the rough stone age. He also determines in what European and Asiatic regions the eight extant horse families were domesticated, and traces their various wanderings over the earth, deducing many interesting facts from the history of their migrations.