Lessons From George Washington

Lessons From George Washington

Susan Allen
Susan Allen

I’m Susan Allen , Welcome to Open Range. There’s  been a rekindled fascination with our Founding Fathers by evidence of all the recent best sellers. I’ve caught the “revolutionary”  bug as well...always in the mood a tea party and as someone who spends countless hours with horses  I’ve been interested to discover if Jefferson and crew ever recorded much about their faithful mounts but once again our first President  doesn’t disappoint, back after the break. Did are early leaders care about their horses or because horses were an everyday necessity did men like, George Washington or Andrew Jackson treat them like, well rather like  an SUV? It’s a fact  George Washington bred mules and liked Arabian Horses but it was a tiny passage in records from the Valley Forge Historical Society that provided insight into our first Presidents commitment to his equine companions. An English visitor to Mt.Vernon in 1785 wrote these words: When dinner was over, we visited the General’s stables, saw his magnificent horses, among them ‘Old Nelson” now twenty-two years of age, that carried the General  almost always during the war. Blueskin; another fine old horse, next to him also had that honor. The General makes no manner of use of them now. He keeps them in a nice stable where they feed away at their ease for their past services.”  Our iconic first President could never have imagined that his dedication to his elderly horses would provide an example of responsibility and inspiration  over 200 years latter to  a more liberal, quote, “tolerate” and supposedly  “humane”  society besieged by the plight of unwanted horses.

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