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http://www.mtn-pleasure-horse.org/RWHistory.html Mountain Pleasure Horse Association |
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From These Hills In 1891 a group of people got together in the offices of the Farmers' Home Journal, and formed the National Saddle Horse Breeders Association, (now called the American Saddlebred Horse Association by resolution in 1899). In 1935, a group of people in Middle Tennessee got together and formed a breed association called the Tennessee Exhibitors Association. And, in 1948, another group got together to form the Missouri Fox Trot Horse Breed Association Did they overlook something? Rewriting History... |
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MOUNTAIN PLEASURE HORSES "We'ben breeding and using the Mountain Pleasure Horse in my family clear back to Grandpa J. C. Stamper. I'm guessing now, but I believe he was born about 1815," says Marion Stamper, himself 81 - born in 1903, the son of Tom Stamper - born 1881, and grandson of Lewis Green Stamper - born 1848. (Marion was mistaken - the date on the tombstone in the Stamper Family Cemetery shows J.C. Stamper to be born in 1812.) But he wasn't wrong about himself, his Daddy, his Daddy before him, and his Daddy before him breeding and trading the Mountain Pleasure Horse. "We just called him the Mountain Horse back then. That "Pleasure" part is new. We didn't have much time for "pleasure" - except maybe on Sundays" he remarks. "Horses up here had to work for a living -they still do, for that matter. No one could afford a horse that only rode good -but wouldn't work. People up here had families to feed. There weren't stores in those days. You ate what you grew. We all had big families that had to eat come winter," describes Marion. "I learned what I know from my Daddy, and he got it from his Daddy. We've always been in the horse tradin' business - and farming, too, of course. That's all we ever knew to do." Marion then stated that the family land in Stamper Branch (an area near Hazel Green, in Wolfe County, KY) has been in the family "ever since Homestead. Never has been sold." Board of Directors - I will contact one of these two individuals to see if I can reprint the article on the Stamper website ... 3/31/07 |
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Johnie Green
President Youth Promotion Chairman HC 61 Box 872 Salyersville Ky.41465 Home606-349-6175 Cell-606-477-6175 Mike Spradlin 5238 Beauty Ridge South Shore Ky.41175 606-932-9833 Daytime Contact Numbers: 9:00AM to 12:00 / Noon 606.932.4945 Cell number 606.923.6992 Email mike@spradlinrealestate.com |