Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX HISTOEY OP THE WALLACE PUBLICATIONS. BY A FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR. Mr. Wallace's early life and education--Removal to Iowa, 1845--Secretary Iowa State Board of Agriculture---Begins work, 1856, on "Wallace's American Stud Book," published 1867--Method of gathering pedigrees-- Trotting Supplement--Abandons Stud Book, 1870, and devotes exclusive attention to trotting literature--"American Trotting Register," Vol. I., published in 1871--Vol. II. follows in 1874--The valuable essay on breeding the forerunner of present ideas--Standard adopted 1879--Its history-- . Battles for control of the "Register"-- Wallace's MontMy founded 1875-- Its character, purposes, history, writers, and artists--" Wallace's Year Book" founded 1885--Great popularity and value--Transfer of the Wallace publications, and their degeneration. The history of the series of works known as the Wallace publications, even in the brief form here contemplated, involves in a large degree the biography of Mr. Wallace. It is indeed more than the sketch of a long and indefatigably industrious life-work. It involves as well, in the forty years of creative labor, the development of a great productive industry, and of a distinct branch of literature. Mr. Wallace's labors in the field of gathering and systematizing American horse history began at a day when there was no breed of trotters, or no trotting literature. When he laid aside active work there were both, well established and clearly defined factors in the nation's progress, and in all the years from the commencement he was the central figure in the work of establishing a breed of trotters, and incomparably the clearest and strongest force in the direction and upbuilding of a trotting literature. That is the simple truth of...
