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Read Horseography USA for pleasure or use it as a homeschool geography curriculum.
It's packed full of information about each state. For example, did you know?
All lost or unclaimed luggage from airplanes, trains, and buses in the US ends up in Alabama.
There are two places in the US that have unique mail delivery—by boat and mule.
The lowest real temperature recorded in the US was -80 degrees. Can you guess where? I guess my state (Ohio) isn't so bad after all.
Goats traipse over the sod roof of a restaurant in Wisconsin.
No tourist has ever been killed in a mule ride through the Grand Canyon.
Racing ostriches was once a popular attraction.
The first speed limit law was 12 mph in cities.
and much more!
Information about horses is included for each state. That may be a specific horse, a horse breed, or a horse event—current or from the past. For example:
A horse was instrumental in founding a Utah university.
Horses were vital to the development of RFD, rural free mail delivery, in 1896.
A group of four men rode to every contiguous US state capital from 1912 to 1915. Only one horse made the entire trip with them.
A herd of wild (feral) ponies are noted for their annual swim and foal auction.
The King Ranch, of Quarter Horse fame, also produced the first Triple Crown winner born outside of Kentucky.
This intelligent Tennessee horse attracted millions of visitors at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Horses were used by the Coast Guard to patrol the east and west coasts during World War II.