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The American Appaloosa Anthology
by Palmer Wagner
An extensive history of the Appaloosa breed and registry. Profiles breeders and horses by state. Hardback, 708 pages, 686 color photos, published 1999.
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My earliest memory concerns an occurrence when I was three years old. I had approached and climbed the right hind leg of one of our mares while she was harnessed to a hay wagon. She lowered her head around to my level and flipped me off sideways, a completely unnatural motion for a horse. In my late teens, I pensioned that mare, against my father's orders, because of the weakness of age and her earlier kindness to me.
My paternal ancestry is a blend of German and native Khirgiz Mongol traits found in central Russia during the time of German Empress Catherine's reign. Familial traits of close relatives, such as the full eyelids of an uncle and a double cousin, an the unusual body skin of color of my father, simply force that conclusion of racial mixture. From the inside I have always viewed it as an advantageous asset.
In recent decades my wife and I attended a concert in Portland, Oregon, presented by a group of musical artists and vocalists from Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I was electrified by what I heard. The instrumental harmonies, and the power and clarity of vocal renditions seemed strangely familiar. In going backstage later on, I felt a strong sense if kinship even though the language barrier prevented any verbal exchange.
Perhaps I found my experience with the Appaloosa so fulfilling because these horses had been part of my own heritage before its reappearance in my generation.
Palmer Wagner
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