Book Board Chat

good morning...
interesting, Jim, about the destrier war horse (I will look it up as soon as I finish this post.) One "learned from a book" tidbit I gleaned was also about horses...The Log of a Cowboy by Andy Adams taught me the word and meaning of remuda. From Wikipedia here is a definition "During the historic cattle drive era, each cowboy required about six horses on a cattle drive, switching the animals daily or even twice daily. Thus, the spare horses must be kept close to the cattle herd and moved along with the cattle so as to be available to riders as needed. The horses graze whenever possible along the way and at night in order to obtain adequate forage. The herd of spare horses was given the name remuda."
BTW, "THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real cowboy life ever written", I enjoyed it very much...reading about the old cattle drives, etc....