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The Wild-Horse Hunter – Chapter 4

The Equinest — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:00:55 +0000

This story comes from The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, the story was written by Zane Grey. Slone looked grimly glad when simultaneously with the first red flash of sunrise a breeze fanned his cheek. All that was needed now was a west wind. And here came the assurance of it. The valley appeared hazy and smoky, with slow, rolling clouds low down where…

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The Wild-Horse Hunter – Chapter 3

The Equinest — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:00:04 +0000

This story comes from The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, the story was written by Zane Grey. That was the last Slone saw of Wildfire for three days. It took all of this day to climb out of the cañon. The second was a slow march of thirty miles into a scrub cedar and piñon forest, through which the great red and yellow walls of the cañon could be seen.

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The Wild-Horse Hunter – Chapter 2

The Equinest — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:00:18 +0000

This story comes from The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, the story was written by Zane Grey. In the early morning when all was gray and the big, dark pines were shadowy specters, Slone was awakened by the cold. His hands were so numb that he had difficulty starting a fire. He stood over the blaze, warming them. The air was nipping, clear and thin…

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The Wild-Horse Hunter – Chapter 1

The Equinest — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:00:35 +0000

This story comes from The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, the story was written by Zane Grey. Three wild-horse hunters made camp one night beside a little stream in the Sevier Valley, five hundred miles, as a crow flies, from Bostil’s Ford. These hunters had a poor outfit, excepting, of course, their horses. They were young men, rangy in build…

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The Wishing Horse of Oz – Chapter 11. Black Magic

The Equinest — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:00:58 +0000

The Wishing Horse of Oz was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson and L. Frank Baum and follows more of Dorothy’s exciting adventures. This time, there’s horses. Dorothy and Pigasus were hustled into the Black Castle, rushed down its shiny black corridors and thrust into a great, dark, dome-shaped room, so quickly they had no opportunity to exchange a word. “Well, anyway, even if it is a dark…

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China’s Beautiful Year of the Horse Stamps

The Equinest — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:00:20 +0000

China Post has released a special set of Year of the Horse stamps to celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year, sparking excitement among stamp lovers. Collectors waited in line in Beijing despite the bitter cold. This two-stamp collection features symbolic horse designs representing vitality, progress and national aspirations tied to China’s cultural traditions and future goals.

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A Horsey Name

The Equinest — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:00:56 +0000

An excerpt from the book Russian Silhouettes More Stories of Russian Life by Anton Tchekoff, translated by Marion Fell. Major-General Buldeeff was suffering from toothache. He had rinsed his mouth with vodka and cognac; applied tobacco ashes, opium, turpentine, and kerosene to the aching tooth; rubbed his cheek with iodine, and put cotton wool soaked with alcohol into his ears…

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