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In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

I rode horses since I was a kid.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.