March News from Horse Books Plus
Free Lecture and New Book
THE HORSE IN VIRGINIA
March 19, 7 P.M.
RSVP ASAP

by Karen Wild
(www.HorseBooksPlus.com)

The Horse in Virginia

Virginia Antiquarian Booksellers Association

1997-2010 Thirteen Years of
Book Selling Excellence

You are invited to meet us in Middleburg, Virginia at the National Sporting Library on March 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm for the unveiling of an important new book:
THE HORSE IN VIRGINIA.

Author Julie Campbell will lecture and sign copies of her new book, The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History, on Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m., at the National Sporting Library. The booksigning will be the first public event launching the book’s publication through University of Virginia Press.

Admission to the lecture is FREE, but seating is limited. RSVP by March 15 to Judy Sheehan at 540-687-6542 x 10 or jsheehan@nsl.org and leave a name & contact number.

HORSE BOOKS PLUS has been requested by the National Sporting Library to handle the sale of the book on lecture night and signed copies may be purchased after the event at 46 color and 113 b/w illustrations.
ISBN: 9780813928166
About the Author
Campbell is the associate director of communications and public affairs at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia.
Hers is the first book to cover the complete history of the horse in the Old Dominion, and much of the research was undertaken at the NSL.

Virginia's horse tradition goes back 400 years to the first settlement at Jamestown. Since then, the state’s special relationship with the horse has never waned. Virginia has been known for centuries for its production of Thoroughbred racehorses and as the birthplace of the native Quarter Horse breed. The state has also produced many famous individual horses, including the great Triple Crown champion Secretariat and Misty of Chincoteague, one of the most beloved animals in children’s literature.

The most significant figures in the Commonwealth’s history have almost invariably enjoyed a special bond with horses, from George Washington—whom Thomas Jefferson called "the best horseman of his age"—to Robert E. Lee, who rode into battle on his well-known gray, Traveller. This tradition has continued into the present day, when horse farms are still a proud feature of the Virginia countryside and famed equestrians such as David and Karen O’Connor have represented their state and their country in the Olympics.

Campbell was raised in Santa Fe, N.M., and earned a B.A. in history from Arizona State University and an M.A. in history from the University of Arizona. She began her publishing career in Denver, Colo., working for a variety of magazines. From 1987 to 1994, she was an editor of books and a journal at the Arizona Historical Society, in Tucson. She moved to Richmond, Va., in 1994, when she became the editor of Virginia Cavalcade, the illustrated magazine of history at the Library of Virginia.

Campbell is the primary author of Studies in Arizona History, a high-school textbook published in 1998 by the Arizona Historical Society, and has contributed articles and book reviews to journals, newspapers, and books including Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, the Journal of Arizona History, the Bloomsbury Review, and Virginia Libraries.


We look forward to meeting you!

Cheers,

Karen Wild
HORSE BOOKS PLUS
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