INTERVIEWS AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH AUTHOR
Robert J. Chambers (RJC)
Fran Sperl Cooper (FS)
Bryan Dickerson (BD)
John S. Dolibois (JD)
Elizabeth Ann Dunn (EAD)
Pam Gleason (PG)
Reed Johnson (RJ)
Sandra Slisher Kanicki (SSK)
James Hudson Pitman Kelsey (JK)
Jan Maiberg (JM)
Maureen Quinlivan Nolen (MQN)
Kathy O’Leary (KO)
Dennis Quinlivan (DQ)
Margaret Quinlivan (MQ)
Herwig Radnetter (HR)
Ulrich Rudofsky (UR)
Anne Stewart (AS)
James Wofford III (JW)
FAMILY PAPERS
Fran Sperl Cooper (FS papers)
Reed Johnson (RJ papers)
Sandra Slisher Kanicki (SSK papers)
James Hudson Pitman Kelsey (JHPK papers)
Kathy O’Leary (KO papers)
Quinlivan Family (QF papers)
Ulrich Rudofsky (UR papers)
Stewart Family (SF papers)
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
The International Museum of the Horse, Arabian Horse Collection (IMH)
Kellogg Arabian Library (KAL)
National Archives and Research Administration (NARA)
National Sporting Library (NAS)
Reed Museum
United States Military Academy
Virginia Historical Association (VMA)
WORKS CONSULTED
“255,700 Men in U.S. Army; Only 2954 Are Colored.” Baltimore Afro-American, December 15, 1934.
“2d Cavalry Regiment.” The Dragoon I (July/August 2012).
“8-Year-Old German Stallion Brings Top Price at Auction.” Undated clipping (IHA).
Agriculture Remount Service Catalogue of Horses to Be Sold at Public Auction. Fort Reno, Oklahoma, 1949 (NAS).
Allen, David. “Pomona’s K Is for a Man Who Was Truly Grrreat!” Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, September 25, 2004.
Allen, Robert S. “Patton Visioned as Unit of Cavalry.” The Salt Lake Tribune, 1946, 4.
“American Gets ‘Emperor’s Horse.’ ” The New York Times, December 13, 1945.
“Arabian Horse Breeding Farm to Change Hands.” Los Angeles Times, 1947.
“Arabian Horse Display Draws Many Tourists.” The Washington Post, 1942.
“Arabian Horses Given to War Department Club Act to Help Defense and Preserve the Strain.” New York Times, October 19, 1941.
“Arabian Horses Given to War Department.” The New York Times, 1941.
“Arco-Valley Held as Foe of Hitler.” The New York Times, 1933.
“Arms Before Men.” Time, August 22, 1938.
“Army and Rambler Polo Fours Victors.” The New York Times, 1922.
“Army Team Fete Visiting Polo Players: Participants Are Guests at Dinner in Army-Navy Club.” The Washington Post, June 11, 1936.
“Army to Get Lipizzaner Stallion.” The New York Times, 1964.
“Army to Increase Its Horse Cavalry.” The New York Times, 1940.
“Army to Use Arabian Stud Farm.” The New York Times, 1943.
Arnold, Dietbert. Gespräche mit einem Pferdemann (Bremen: Pferdesport-Verlag Ehlers, Gmbh, 1995).
“Athletes Spurred by Reich Officials.” The New York Times, 1935.
“Austria.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org.
“Average American No Adonis to Science.” The New York Times, August 22, 1932.
Bartlett, Arthur. “The War Horse Comes Back: Military Experts Said the Cavalry Was Dead.” The Sun, 1941.
“The Battles of Lunéville: September 1944.” Military History Online, www.militaryhistoryonline.com.
“Drew Pearson on the Washington Merry-Go-Round.” News Release, Bell Syndicate, November/December 1945.
Betts, Burr. “*Witez II.” The Arabian Horse Journal, July 1977.
“Big Maneuvers Test US Army.” Life, October 6, 1941.
Black, Edwin. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003).
Blumenson, Martin. The Patton Papers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972).
Boker, John R., Jr. “Report of Initial Contacts with General Gehlen’s Organization.” Forging an Intelligence Partnership: CIA and the Origins of the BND, 1945–1949 (CIA History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, European Divison, 1999).
Brandts, Ehrenfried. Pferde zwischen den Fronten: Polnische Staatsgestüte und das Schicksal des Hengstgestüts Drogomysl/Draschendorf unter deutscher Besatzung 1939–1945 (Munich: Zugvogel Verlag Wenzel, 2007).
“Brilliant Setting for Society Circus.” The Washington Post, 1922.
Brown, Gordon. “Meet Vast, Army Wonder Horse Which Can Gallop Backward.” The Washington Post, 1940.
Case, Carole. The Right Blood: America’s Aristocrats in Thoroughbred Racing (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001).
Catalogue of Thoroughbreds, Property of the U.S. Remount Service to Be Sold by Public Auction at Aleshire Quarter Master Depot (Remount), Front Royal, Virginia. Pamphlet, 1946 (NSP).
Chavez, Stephanie. “Horse Lovers Head for the Shrine.” Los Angeles Times, 2001.
Clark, Alfred E. “Charles H. Reed, 79, the Colonel Who Rescued Lipizanner Horses.” The New York Times, 1980.
Clay, Steven E. “US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941.” Combat Studies Institute Press II (2010).
“Clinical History of Crime.” The New York Times, 1925.
“Cole Heads Army Riders.” The New York Times, 1938.
Cole, Hugh M. European, Mediterranean, Middle East Theaters of Operations (Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History, 2002).
“Commissions Given 132 at West Point.” The New York Times, 1922.
Corrigan, Joseph E. “They Say.” The New York Times, 1930.
Cullum, George W. Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, Vol. VII (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1931).
Daley, Arthur J. “Largest U.S. Team in History, 395, Will Compete in Olympic Games.” The New York Times, 1936.
Daniell, Raymond. “Pity for Germans Grows in U.S. Ranks.” The New York Times, 1945.
Daume, Anja. Galoppieren gegen den Wind: Gestütsgeschichte Mansbach: Vision & Wirklichkeit (Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand, 2009).
Davis, Susan. “Operation Cowboy.” Sports Illustrated, October 16, 1995.
De Amicis, Albert. General George S. Patton, Jr., and the U.S. 2nd Cavalry (Patton’s Ghosts of the Third Army), University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, July 17, 2008.
D’Este, Carlo. Patton: A Genius for War (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).
“Die Lipizzaner und der Kötztinger Pfingstritt 1945,” 601 Jahre Kötztinger Pfingstritt. Author’s personal collection.
DiMarco, Louis A. “The Army Equestrian Olympic Team.” Louis DiMarco home page, www.louisdimarco.com.
———. War Horse: A History of the Military Horse and Rider (Yardley, UK: Westholme Publishing, 2008).
Dolibois, John. Pattern of Circles: An Ambassador’s Story (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1989).
———. Interview with John Dolibois, May 11, 2000, RG-50.030*0408, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, collections.ushmm.org.
Douglas, R. M. Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012).
“Dressage Experts.” The New Yorker, November 5, 1950.
Dyer, George. XII Corps Spearhead of Patton’s Third Army. Report, 1945.
“Eugenics Conference Opens Here Today.” The New York Times, August 13, 1932.
“Europe Is Offering an Extensive List of Fall Attractions.” The Christian Science Monitor, 1938.
“European Horses Captured by Army Pose Problem.” The Christian Science Monitor, December 3, 1947.
Evans, Richard J. The Third Reich at War (New York: Penguin Press, 2009).
“Even Atom Age Can’t Displace War Horse. Animals Still Needed, Retired Officer Says.” Chicago Daily Tribune, February 23, 1948.
“Eyewitness Gotz Bergander Recalls the Bombing of Dresden.” German History in Documents and Images, Nazi Germany 1933–1945, ghi-dc.org.
Fahnenbruck, Nele Maya. “…Reitet für Deutschland”: Pferdesport und Politik im Nationalsozialismus (Göttingen, Germany: Die Werkstatt, 2013).
Foster, Renita. “American Cowboys Ride to the Rescue.” Armor, 1998, 22–23.
Frederic, Sondern. “The Wonderful White Stallions of Vienna.” Reader’s Digest, April 1963.
Freilinghaus, Eckkehard. “Hubert Rudofsky ein Grandseigneur der Welt des Pferdes.” Trankhener Hefte, undated, from Rudofsky family papers.
———. “Hubert Rudofsky.” Arabische Pferde, 151.
“Ft. Myer Society Circus Is Success; Two Shows Today.” The Washington Post, 1933.
“Gen. Patton Helped Save Famed White Stallions.” The Washington Post, 1966.
“German Army Jumpers Win the Lion’s Share of Horse Show Honors.” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 13, 1930.
“German Horse Wins at Garden.” The Washington Post, 1946.
“German Visitors Learn Their ABCs of Trotting at Goshen.” Middletown Times Herald, 1938.
Godfrey, A. H. “Driving Four-in-Hand.” Outing, May 1897, 107–12.
Golden, Chris, ed. “History, Customs and Traditions of the ‘Second Dragons,’ the Oldest Continuously Serving Mounted Regiment in the United States Army.” In 2d Cavalry Association (Newton, MA: 2d Cavalry Association, 2011), 1–56.
“Gustav Rau Led Olympic Riding Team.” The New York Times, December 6, 1954.
Hanlin, J. J. “The General and the Horses.” The American Legion Magazine, 1963, 22–43.
The Heimatbrief: A Newsletter Magazine of the German Bohemian Heritage Society 17 (March 2007) and 19 (September 2008).
“Here for the National Horse Show.” The New York Times, October 3, 1950.
Herr, John K. The Story of the U.S. Cavalry 1776–1942 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956).
Higgins, Alice. “From the Near East to the Far West.” Sports Illustrated, March 11, 1963.
Hitler, Adolf, trans. Ralph Manheim. Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943).
“Hitler Watches Equestrians Win Show.” The New York Times, February 10, 1934.
Hofmann, George F. Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006).
Holt, Carlyle. “America Builds an Army. Cavalry Horse Just Like His Rider Gets 13 Weeks of Basic Training.” The Boston Daily Globe, January 9, 1943.
Holz, Louis T., ed. “Thoroughbred: Second Cavalry Association.” Newsletter #59, Summer 1980.
“Horse Show Ball Is Set for Nov. 3.” The New York Times, 1950.
“Horses Arriving from Europe for the Garden Show.” The New York Times, October 1, 1950.
“Horses Held Booty.” Chicago Daily Tribune, January 14, 1948.
Hughes, Allen. “Lipizzaner at the Garden.” The New York Times, 1964.
Iggers, Wilma, and Georg Iggers. Two Lives in Uncertain Times: Facing the Challenges of the 20th Century as Scholars and Citizens (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006).
“Imported Horses Attract Throng at Front Royal.” The Washington Post, 1946.
Isenbart, Hans-Heinrich, Emil M. Bührer, and Kurt Albrecht. The Imperial Horse: The Saga of the Lipizzaners (New York: Knopf, 1986).
“James H. Pitman 1940 Cullum Number 2006, September 18, 1944. Died in Lunéville, France.” www.westpoint.edu.
Keane, Michael. Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer (New York: Regnery, 2012).
“Kellogg Arabian Horse Farm Turned Over to Army.” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 1943.
“Kellogg Farm Fate in Brannan Hands.” Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1948.
Kershaw, Ian. The End: The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Penguin Press, 2011).
Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (New York: Knopf, 1985).
Keyser, Tom. “Aging GI Reflects on WWII Rescue of Lipizzaner Stallions.” Laredo Morning Times, 2005.
“King of the Wing Review.” The New York Times, November 14, 1948.
Knapp, George. “Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in the 1930s and Early 1940s: Interviews Conducted by George Knapp.” Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, April 1991.
Kochanski, Halik. The Eagle Unbowed (New York: Penguin, 2013).
Kowalczyk, Andra. Tennessee’s Arabian Horse Racing Heritage (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2007).
Kugler, Georg, and Paula Boomsliter. The Lipizzan Horse: A Guide to Vienna’s Spanish Riding School and Lipizzaner Museum (Florence, Italy: Bonechi, 2002).
Lambert, A. L., and G. B. Layton. The Ghosts of Patton’s Third Army: A History of the Second U.S. Cavalry. Compiled, edited, and published by Historical Section, 2nd Cavalry Association, 1946.
Leerhsen, Charles. Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).
Legendary White Stallions, DVD. Directed by Michael Schlamberger. PBS, 2013.
“Letter.” Charles Hancock Reed to Mrs. O’Leary, September 29, 1945 (KO papers).
Livingston, Phil, and Ed Roberts. War Horse: Mounting the Cavalry with America’s Finest Horses (Albany, TX: Bright Sky Press, 2003).
Loch, Sylvia. The Royal Horse of Europe: The Story of the Andalusian and Lusitano (London: J. A. Allen, 1986).
“Los Angeles Briefs.” Los Angeles Times, May 5, 1946.
“The W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch.” Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1931.
Ludwig, Dieter. “Inge Theodorescu—eine groβe Pferdefrau lebt nicht mehr,” ludwigs-pferdewelten.de, April 12, 2010.
Luft, Monika. “The Lots of Arabian Horses in Poland, Part 1: The World War I and the Bolshevik Invasion.” Arabians Horse Mag. www.polskiearaby.com, March 21, 2011.
———. “The Lots of Arabian Horses in Poland, Part 2—World War II.” Arabians Horse Mag. www.polskiearaby.com, April 6, 2011.
MacCormac, John. “Austria Will Send Famed Horse Unit.” The New York Times, 1950.
MacDonogh, Giles. After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (New York: Basic Books, 2007).
Malone, Michael. “Stolen by the Nazis: The Tragic Tale of 12,000 Blue-Eyed Blond Children Taken by the SS to Create an Aryan Super Race.” Daily Mail (London), January 9, 2009.
“The Man Originating from the Sudentenland Found a New Home in Boxberg.” Undated clipping (UR papers).
Martin, Frank Wayne, and Nancy Martin. Patton’s Lucky Scout: The Adventures of a Forward Observer for General Patton and the Third Army in Europe (Milwaukee: Crick-hollow Books, 2009).
McGuire, Phillip. Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1983).
McLaughlin, Kathleen. “Patton Gives Up Army to Truscott.” The New York Times, 1945.
Michael, John. Fort Myer (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2011).
Morgan, M. H. The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon (London, 1894).
“Mrs. Patton’s Fall Is Fatal.” The Sun, October 1, 1953.
“Name Adolf Held Banned for German Police Horses.” The New York Times, 1943.
NASS News: The Official Newsletter of the North American Shagya-Arabian Society, September 2008, 1–14.
“National Defense: Horses on Wheels.” Time, August 19, 1940.
“The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 18, 2015.
“New Problem for Senate: 234 Horses.” The Washington Post, December 2, 1947.
“New Removals Slash Kellogg Ranch Herd.” Los Angeles Times, 1948.
“Now Men on Horseback Team Up with Machines.” Life, April 21, 1941, 86–93.
“Ocean Travelers.” The New York Times, 1938.
“Official Denies Horses Booty.” The Washington Post, December 12, 1947.
“Operation Cowboy: The Saving [sic] the Lipizzaner Horses by Troop A, 42nd Squadron Mecz 2nd Cavalry Group (The Ghosts of Patton’s Third Army),” www.gjt.cz.
O’Shaughnessy, Edward J., Jr. The Evolution of the Armored Force, 1920–1940 (United States Army War College, 1993).
“Our Hitler (1945).” German Propaganda Archive, www.calvin.edu.
Parker, Earl, Ph.D. “The Remount Service and Its Stallions: Rescue of the WWII Hostau POWs and of the Lipizzans, Part I.” Haute École 20, no. 4 (Summer 2012).
Path to Glory: The Rise and Rise of the Polish Arabian Horse. Directed by Jen Miller and Sophie Pegrum. Horsefly Films, 2011.
“Patterson Arabians.” Arabian Horse World, June 1977.
Pawelec-Zawadska, Izabella, “Andrzej Krzyształowicz,” Magazyn z M do M, January 1998.
Peter, Brigitte. “Hostau 1945: Die Rettung der Lipizzaner—Wagnis oder Wunder? Die Rettung der weissen Pferde am Ende des II. Weltkrieges.” Zyklus 2–4 (1982).
Piekałkiewicz, Janusz. The Cavalry of World War II (New York: Stein and Day, 1980).
Podhajsky, Alois. The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967).
———. My Dancing White Horses (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965).
———. My Horses, My Teachers (North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1997).
Powell, Horace B. The Original Has This Signature: W. K. Kellogg (Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 1989).
“Question of Ownership of Captured Horses: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the United States Senate. Eightieth Congress. First Session. December 3–23, 1947.” United States Government Printing Office, 1947.
“Prize Horses Seized in Hungary to Be Sold.” The Washington Post, November 21, 1947.
Ragan, Jean. “A Horse and His Friend.” The Denver Post, April 30, 1961.
Rau, Gustav. Die Reitkunst der Welt an den olympischen Spielen 1936. L’Art équestre du monde…International Equitation, Etc. (Hildesheim, Germany: Olms Presse, 1978).
“Reich Equestrians Arrive for Shows. German Party to Visit Sport’s Centers. Group Attends Races at Belmont.” The New York Times, May 10, 1938.
Rendel, John. “10,000 See Horse Show Opening; Mexican Girl Wins Feature Jump.” The New York Times, 1950.
Robinson, Ruth. “Lipizzaner Stallions, Due May 19, Attract Big Benefit Parties.” The New York Times, 1964.
Robson, Seth. “Czech Republic Pays Tribute to WWII Heroes. Memorial to Honor Soldiers Who Saved Lipizzaners, POWs.” Stars and Stripes, April 9, 2006.
“Rommel’s Arabian Horse in Windsor Castle Stable.” The New York Times, 1946.
Rosmus, Anna. Czech Incursions: Foreign Horses Going Home (Anna Elisabeth Rosmus, 2014).
“Royal Horses Will Be Sold.” The Washington Post, November 20, 1947.
Schoomaker, Eric B., and Russell J. Czerw. The United States Army Medical Department Journal, 2009.
“Scientists Display Heredity Control.” The New York Times, 1929.
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Smith, Krista. “Historic Sagamore Farm: New and Improved.” Baltimore Fishbowl, May 17, 2013.
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“Society Circus at Fort Myer Begins Friday.” The Washington Post, 1932.
“Stallion Brings $20,300; Young Pawley Gets German-Bred Nordlicht at Auction.” Undated clipping (IMA).
Steen, Andrew K. “W. R. Brown’s Maynesboro Stud.” Modern Arabian Horse, September 12, 2012, 44–51.
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“Sysonby’s Body Exhumed.” The New York Times, 1906.
Tavel, Emilie. “Hungary Asks U.S. to Return Thoroughbred Horses.” The Christian Science Monitor, December 4, 1947.
Tedesco, Vincent J., III. “ ‘Greasy Automations’ and ‘The Horsey Set’: The U.S. Cavalry and Mechanization, 1928–1940.” Master’s thesis, Pennsylvania State University, 1995.
“The Thoroughbreds from Germany. Not a Shadow of a Doubt.” The Blood-Horse, November 9, 1946.
Thurtle, Phillip. “Harnessing Heredity in Gilded Age America: Middle Class Mores and Industrial Breeding in a Cultural Context.” Journal of the History of Biology, 2002, 43–78.
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“Um die 50. Lipizzaner sollen dabei gewesen sein.” 601 Jahre Kötztinger Pfingstritt. Author’s personal collection.
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“Use Army Horses in Polo.” The New York Times, 1922.
“ ‘War Booty’ Horses Viewed by 8 Officials.” The Washington Post, December 7, 1947.
Westerman, Frank. Brother Mendel’s Perfect Horse: Man and Beast in an Age of Human Warfare (London: Vintage Digital, 2012).
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“The W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Ranch.” Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1931.
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