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>Albert Harris, in "The Blood of the Arab: the

>World's Greatest War Horse", devotes a chapter

>to Hidalgo. Harris includes several letters from Hopkins.

Charlotte, does Harris cite any independent sources

to verify Hopkins' story?

I was thinking. If somebody actually wanted

to document the reality of this race, what

contemporary sources exist? You'd need some

current day professor or archivist or Near

Eastern librarian who knows the first source

material from that era and that locale. I

was checking in some of my old college books,

and one of the books cites a bunch of stuff

written post 1900, like a "Gazeteer" set of

yearbooks for 1908-1912 from somebody posted in

Aden, but nothing that goes back as far as 1890.

This is getting intriguing. We've yet to

see anything that proves Mr. Hopkins' story,

except Mr. Hopkins telling it. Who would I

call...Who would I call...

Incidentally, Ms. Smithyman's query demonstrates

that Bryer, at least, is getting ready to ride

whatever popularity wave the release of this

Disney film creates. What is AERC doing?

What are all our local clubs doing?

Linda B. Merims

Massachusetts, USA