Horses

Men on horseback and in vehicles perform maneuvers at Fort Riley in Kansas. This photo was sent to Senator Harry S. Truman by William Kirby, Manager of the Missouri State Employment Service in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ned Kennedy (left) and Cecil Cary (right) of Tacoma, Washington, on horseback traveling on a street in Bellefontaine, Ohio. They traveled by horseback to the White House. Photo sent to President Harry S. Truman by C. V. Hadley of Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Ned Kennedy (left) and Cecil Cary (right) of Tacoma, Washington, on horseback in front of The Hadleys Photography Studio. They traveled by horseback to the White House. Photo sent to President Harry S. Truman by C. V. Hadley of Bellefontaine, Ohio.

Martha Ellen Truman, Harry S. Truman's mother, stands in the doorway of her Grandview, Missouri farm home, plate in hand, watching a distant relative, Roy Romine, lead a horse to the water pump. The child on the back of the horse is unidentified. From: Roy T. Romine

Harry S. Truman's mother, Martha Ellen Truman (2nd from left, standing), and sister, Mary Jane Truman (left, standing) pose for a picture with children and a horse in front of the Grandview, Missouri farm home. Only Roy Romine, a distant relative (center), is identified. From: Roy Romine.

Good view of the barn on the Truman farm, with an old hay wagon and horses in front of it. Caption says "The Barn that Grandpa Built." One of a series of photos from Mary Jane Truman's Christmas Album, 1906. From: Copied from photos lent to the Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

One of a series of photos from Mary Jane Truman's Christmas Album, 1906. Mary Jane Truman (driving) and two unidentified ladies in a horse-drawn buggy at the Grandview farm. Caption says "Homeward Bound." From: Copied from photos lent to the Truman Library by Martha Ann Swoyer, daughter of Vivian Truman.

A wrangler leads a show stallion to the barn on the T.C. Johnson farm, while two boys watch from a fence top. Clark "Tiny" Johnson is a Deputy Sheriff of Jackson County, Missouri. All people in photo are unidentified. From: Jenny Johnson, Widow of Tiny Johnson

Saddle made by Bill Francisco, an old friend of Harry S. Truman.

Two horses of the Oregon Cavalcade group, commemorating the anniversary of the Oregon Trail. Independence, Missouri was the start of the Oregon Trail.