author
Allan Melvill Pope
b. 1879
An early 20th-century cavalry officer turned horse-training writer, he brought a practical, military-minded approach to working with horses. His best-known book offers a clear window into how horsemanship was taught in his era.
1 Audiobook
Horse Training by Modern Methods
by Allan Melvill Pope
About the author
Born in 1879, Allan Melvill Pope is credited as the author of Horse Training by Modern Methods, published in 1912. Library and digitized-book records identify him as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army cavalry, which helps explain the book’s disciplined, instructional tone.
His writing focuses on horse training as a matter of careful practice rather than force, making the book part manual and part snapshot of early 20th-century equestrian thinking. For listeners interested in horses, military history, or practical how-to books from another era, his work has a straightforward appeal.
Reliable biographical details about his wider life are fairly limited in the sources readily available online. Records associated with his publications and memorial listings indicate that he was born in 1879 and died in 1963.