Books & Videos
Breaking and Training the Driving Horse - Our most popular 'beginner' book. Packed with nice clear illustrations. Covers ground work, harnessing, choosing equipment and vehicles, starting the colt in harness and handling the reins.
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Doris Ganton. Soft cover. 85 pages      
$15.00

Breaking and Training the Horse to Drive - Good visual accompaniment for the book. Easy to follow basic training and selection of equipment.
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Video. Doris Ganton. 90 minutes.      
$39.99

Driving a Tandem - One of the few sources for training and driving the tandem. Covers training showing and pleasure driving. Clear explanation of holding the reins, holding the whip and driving techniques. Schooling for both the wheeler and the leader are covered. Nice collection of color photographs
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Dr. Paul Saliveux. Hard cover. 53 pages.      
$49.95

Driven Dressage - Nice introduction to driven dressage and wonderful diagrams of transitions and problems in the horse's form. Covers training, lungeing, gaits and problems.
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Sandy Rabinowitz. 55 pages. Soft cover.      
$15.00

Work Horse Hand Book - A great text for care, feeding, hitching, and driving the work horse. Lots of easy to follow illustrations.
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Lynn R. Miller. 224 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95
Hard cover      
$50.00

Training the Work Horse Training the Teamster - The teamster's referrence book working horses on the farm, in the woods, down the road. Many easy to understand diamgrams. Sections on driving problems and teaching the teamster to drive.
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Lynn R. Miller. 352 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95
Hard cover      
$50.00

Haying With Horses - Over 1000 illustrations covering mowers, rakes, hayloaders, and buckrakes. Instruction for building loose hay stacks and wagon loads, as well as unloading and feeding systems.
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Lynn R. Miller. 368 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95

Horsedrawn Tillage Tools - Huge collection of information on tillage and cultivation with 1000's of illustrations of disc, harrows, harrow carts, rollers, culti-packers and cultivators.
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Lynn R. Miller. 368 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95

Horsedrawn Plows and Plowing - Over 1000 illustrations covering how to plow using both older equipment and new implements. Lots of diagrams showing tricky adjustments for riding and walking plows.
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Lynn R. Miller. Soft cover.      
$32.95

Horsedrawn Mower Book - The newest book in the Lynn Miller collection. Many pictures and drawings. Lists parts by maker with parts numbers and has instructions on how to mow a field as well as maintenance and repair.
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Lynn R. Miller. 352 pages. Soft cover      
$32.95

Make The Most Of Carrige Driving - Discusses history and gives technical advise with excellent illustrations for harnessing. Chapters on singles, tandems, pairs and teams. Currently back ordered.
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Claxton and Ellis. 177 pages.      
$21.95

Driving a Harness Horse - A companion book to Breaking a Horse to Harness. Looks at the horse, harness, vehicle, clothing and driving technique. Many photos and drawings.
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Sally Walrond. 208 pages. Hard cover.      
$41.95

Breaking a Horse to Harness - A companion book to Driving a Harness Horse. Step-by-step guide of tested methods to enable a competent horseman to train his own horse to harness. 70 special photographs.
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Sally Walrond. 192 pages. Hard cover.      
$41.95

Draft Horses an Owner's Manual - Covers unique aspects of owning a draft horse including health care, hoof care, feeding, disorders, and breeding.
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Valentine and Wildenstein. 236 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95

It's Showtime - One of the few books that covers showing draft horses for the beginner. Chapters on conformations, types, shoeing, braiding, and showing.
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Robert Mischka. 128 pages.      
$18.00

Wheelmaking - Compiled by the Carriage Museum of America. A collection of acticles concerning all aspects of wheelmaking.
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Edited by Don Peloubet. 245 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95

Horse Drawn Sleighs - A fully illustrated collection of sleighs and articles from journals of the late 19th century. Full descriptions with dimensions of all types of sleighs.
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Susan Green. 267 pages. Soft cover.      
$32.95

Driving - An Allen Photographic guide with lots of illustrations for harnessing, holding the reins and the whip, driving singles and pairs, and common errors.
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Ann Norris and Caroline Douglas.      
$10.95

Starting to Drive - A Threshold series book illustrating harnessing, pulling to, handling the reins, mounting the carriage, and driving on the road.
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24 pages.      
$12.95

Driving Do's and Don'ts - A Threshold series book illustrating common errors in harnessing, driving on the road, eventing, and showing.
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24 pages.      
$12.95

Driving Questions Answered - A Threshold series book illustrating questions about vehicles, driving problems, driving in company, sore horses, and other common questions.
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24 pages.      
$12.95

The Essential Guide to Carriage Driving - New in 2003, this book contains 15 chapters offering information on several types of driving, selection of the necessary componets, safety, putting to, sleighing, and multiple hitches. The final chapter contains resources for carrigae driving.
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Robyn Cuffey and Jaye-Allison Winkel. 155 pages. 350 illustrations. Soft cover.      
$24.95

Sports Driving: Complete Guide to Horse Driving Trials - New in 2007, A terrific update on this sport. This books offers the beginner as well as the seasoned driver insight into schooling, driving techniques and problem solving for driving cones, dressage and the marathon.
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Amanda Saville. 192 pages. Hard cover      
$36.95

  This catalog page was last updated at 1:03 pm on August 9, 2008.