Where the Horse Was Tamed: The Steppe and the Shifting Evidence Jul 25, 2026 Leyden Horsemanship Journal Zachary Leyden Somewhere on the grasslands of Eurasia, thousands of years ago, a person and a horse arrived at an arrangement that would remake human history. We cannot point to the spot on a map with confidence, an... History of Horsemanship Horses & Human History Read more
Tom Dorrance, Horseman: The Quiet Source of a Movement Jul 20, 2026 Leyden Horsemanship Journal Zachary Leyden The man most often named as the source of modern natural horsemanship never franchised a method, barely published, and spent the better part of a century politely declining to be famous. Ask working h... History of Horsemanship The Natural Horsemanship Movement Read more
Chariot Warfare History: Before Cavalry, the Horse Pulled the War Jul 17, 2026 Leyden Horsemanship Journal Zachary Leyden For roughly a thousand years, the deadliest thing on a battlefield rolled on two wheels behind a pair of horses, and nobody sat on the horses at all. Chariot warfare history usually gets told backward... Cavalry & Working Horses History of Horsemanship Read more
Vaquero History: Spain's Horsemen in the New World Jul 14, 2026 Leyden Horsemanship Journal Zachary Leyden The word is built from cattle. Vaca, the cow; vaquero, the man who works her from a horse. Everything else about the tradition follows from that plain job description, and vaquero history begins long ... History of Horsemanship The Vaquero & Western Tradition Read more
Xenophon on Horsemanship: The Oldest Riding Manual We Still Read Jul 9, 2026 Leyden Horsemanship Journal Zachary Leyden Around 355 BC, an aging Athenian cavalry veteran wrote down what he knew about buying, keeping, and schooling a horse. Men had written about horses before him, and nearly all of it is dust. His surviv... History of Horsemanship The Old Masters & Classical Tradition Read more
