The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban
America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only
vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought
fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and
machine shops.
Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of urban life,
here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing
nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as
veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city
newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses
were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and
employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of
waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal
challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment
for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work
in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings
us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this
unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
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