Horses & Horsemen

In 1965, I self published a book entitled, Horses & Horsemen. This publication was originally not intended to be a book.

I had been publisher and the first editor of the Paint Quarter Horse Journal. This magazine was the official publication of the American Paint Quarter Horse Association. This association merged with The Paint Stock Horse Association to become the American Paint Horse Association.

I was asked to become editor of a new, yet to be published all breeds horse magazine, to be titled The Horseman. It was planned to stay a minimum of 3 months in advance of publication, therefore a great deal of materials including photographs and articles were obtained and filed in advance of publication of the first issue.

Due to a series of unexpected delays in printing, it was decided to cancel publication. The new planned magazine never got off the ground. I felt that something should be done with at least part of the material that had been gathered.

Some of this material plus one or two articles that had been published in The Paint Quarter Horse Journal were combined to become the book, Horses and Horsemen. Unfortunately, the printer did a rather poor job of proof reading parts of the book before printing and I did an even poorer job of proof reading. For those who read or have read the book, please forgive any misspelled words.

The The copyrighted painting of the famous Appaloosa stallion Joker B by Darol Dickinson had been planned to be used on the cover of the magazine and was in fact used on the dust cover of the hard back issue and the cover of the paper back issue of the book. (Reproduced above with permission of Darol Dickinson) A photo of the cover of the planned first issue of the magazine and the front cover of the paper back version of the book are shown above.

Another magazine with the same or a similar name in fact went into publication at some point after this.

02-25-10, JBW








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