Below is a list of articles and publications, written by Maryan Zyderveld, D.M.V., regarding the Tennessee Walking Horse and other gaited breeds. These articles are copyrighted, and reprinting of the material is prohibited without written permission from the author (mczyderveld@xs4all.nl). However, please feel free to link to them for distribution of the content therein.

General titles, including books on training:

• Lee Ziegler – Easy-gaited Horses – Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA – 2005

• Andrea Jδnisch & Kaja Stόhrenberg – Gymnastizierung von Gangpferden – Cadmos, D-Lόneburg - 2001

• Karin Tillisch & Denise Schemel – Gangpferde – Mόller Rόschlikons Verlags AG, CH-Cham - 2000

• Birgit Dresel & Christiane Gohl – Gangpferde besser reiten – Kosmos, D-Stuttgart - 1999

• Helene Deodatus – Rijden op IJslanders & andere gangenpaarden – NL-La Riviθre, Baarn – 1997

• Brenda Imus – Heavenly Gaits – CrossOver Publications, New York - 1995

• Hildegard Jung – Reiten auf Gangpferden – Falken, D-Niedernhausen - 1994

• Maryan C. Zyderveld – De laterale symmetrische gangen, in het bijzonder die van het paard – Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, NL-Utrecht - 1991

• Freizeit im Sattel (compilation of articles from) – Gangpferde, die Geschichte ihrer Wiederentdeckung auf dem Kontinent – D-Bonn – 1989

• Andrea-Katharina Rostock & Walter Feldmann – Islandpferde Reitlehre – Theneι Druck KG, D-Bonn - 1986

• Helen K. Crabtree – Saddle Seat Equitation – Doubleday & Company, New York – 1982

• Bob Robinson – Show your Horse – Saddle and Bridle Inc., St. Louis, Missouri – 1978

• Marilyn Carlson Childs – Riding Show Horses – Arco Publishing Company, New York – 1963

• Louis Taylor – Ride American – Harper & Row Publishers, New York, Evanston, and London – 1963

• Pers Crowell – Cavalcade of American horses – McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York – 1951

• Edward L. Anderson & Price Collier – Riding and Driving – The MacMillan Company, New York – 1905

• John Gilmer Speed – The Horse in America – McClure, Phillips & Co., New York – 1905

• Theodore Ayrault Dodge – Riders of Many Lands – Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London – 1894

• Theodore Ayrault Dodge – Patroclus and Penelope – David Douglas, Edinburgh - 1885

• Gervase Markham – Cavalarice – U.K. - 1617

• Joe Webb – Rack-N-Style – Private publication Joe Webb, Searcy, Arkansas – January 1, 1977

American Saddlebred Horse:

• Judy Fisher Oetonger – The Saddlebred, America’s Horse of Distinction – Harmony House Publ., Prospect, KY – 1991

• Louis Taylor – The Horse America Made – Graessle-Mercer Co., Seymour, Indiana – 1961

• Earl R. Farshler – The American Saddle Horse – Standard Printing Co., Louisville, Kentucky – 1938

• W. Jefferson Harris – The History of Bourbon King 1788 – The Judson Company, Cleveland, Ohio – 1934

• Linda Jones – The Longview We Remember – Storm Ridge Pr - 1990

• George Ford Morris – Portraitures of Horses – Fordacre Studios -1952

• Emily Ellen Scharf) Susanne – Training and Gaiting – Hobson Book Press-1944

Icelandic Horse:

• Freizeit im Sattel (compilation of articles from) – Islandpferde auf dem Kontinent – D-Bonn - 1985

• Thorvaldur Αrnason – Genetic Studies on Conformation and Performance of Icelandic Toelter Horses – Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet – S-Uppsala – 1983

Missouri Foxtrotting Horse:

• N. I. Moeller – Fox Trot Trackings – Bonner Springs, Kansas - 1986

Paso Fino Horse:

• J. M. Escobar & C. De Francisco Saavedra – El Caballo de Paso Colombiano – Bogotα, Colombia - 1986

• Jose M. Laracuente – The Paso Fino Horse – Ramallo Bros., Hato Rey, Puerto Rico – 1983

• George J. LaHood, Jr. & Rosalie MacWilliam – The American Paso Fino – Private publication, Valdosta, Georgia & Tryon, North Carolina - 1976

Peruvian Paso:

• Verne R. Albright – The Peruvian Paso and his Classic Equitation – Caballus Publishers, Fort Collins, CO - 1975

• Luis de Ascαsubi – El Caballo de Paso y su Equitation – Lima, Peru – 1968

Tennessee Walking Horse:

• Bob Womack – The Echo of Hoofbeats – Shelbyville, TN – 1994 (3rd Edition)

• Allanna Lea Jackson – Back Yard Walkin’ Training Tips – Lakeside, Arizona - 1992

• Vickie Presley Mazzola – The Plantation Tennessee Walking Horse – Shelbyville, TN – 1992

• Bob Womack – The Echo of Hoofbeats – Shelbyville, TN – 1984 (2nd Edition)

• Joe Webb – The Care and Training of the Tennessee Walking Horse – Arkansas - 1965

• Ben A. Green – Biography of the Tennessee Walking Horse – Parthenon Press, Nashville TN – 1960

This list is not complete – any additions to this list of books on gaited horses are welcomed at: mczyderveld@xs4all.nl

There is no separate book written yet on the history of gaited horses in the world. A first start on this subject is to be found in Islandpferde Reitlehre (Bonn 1986) – author Maryan Zyderveld

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