Horses used on the Escape Route

[Wild Bill]

For Eva and anyone else who is interested, see J. E. “Rick” Smith, III, “What Is Horse-Faking?” Surratt Courier, 33 (No. 4, April 2008), 4-6; “More on the Fate of the Horses,” ibid., 33 (No. 5, May 2008), 4-5. Smith was inspired by a Sherlock Holmes Story, "Silver Blaze." see, e.g., William S. Baring-Gould (ed.), The Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2 vols., New York: Clarkson N Potter, Inc., Publisher, 1967), II, 261-81. For a story of "horse-faking" in action during the American Civil War, from the Yankee side, see Benjamin W. Crowninshield, A History of the First Regiment of Massachusetts Cavalry Volunteers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891), 291-92.