This one's about the Rocky Mountain Horse — the plain, sure-footed gaited breed that Appalachian farm families trusted over flashier trotting stock, and the one man and one woman who kept it from disappearing entirely between the Depression and 1986. If you're buying a gaited horse, Volume II and the Inspection Sheet bonus walk through exactly what to check before money changes hands.

If you run a gaited horse, or your family did, drop your state and tell me what that horse could do that the others on the place could not.