A treatise on horsemanship. By Colonel Battersby. New York : Orange Judd Company. 1886.

Col. Battersby is famous as a rider. As a member of Sheridan's corps in the army of Virginia, his feats of horsemanship are matters of record. The 1st New York Cavalry got an expert reputation under his control. He is just the one to tell about riding. The book is very pleasantly written, and will interest those who care at all for horses, as well as those who love to ride. Intelligent as the horse is, who would suppose that a wild horse would care to take pains to obtain freedom for the domesticated horse ! A pleasant incident narrated here, is the manner in which a band of wild horses took pains to free emigrants' horses traversing the plains. It was evidently not so interesting to the owners of the animals. Human beings could not show more good reason and subtle judgment than these horses exhibited in their philanthropic enterprises.