author
Allan Melvill Pope
b. 1879
A U.S. Army cavalry officer, he wrote a practical early-20th-century guide to horse handling that drew on military horsemanship and training methods of the day. His work offers a clear window into how riders and trainers thought about horses in 1912.
1 Audiobook
Horse Training by Modern Methods
by Allan Melvill Pope
About the author
Born in Boston in 1879, Allan Melvill Pope is chiefly remembered for Horse Training by Modern Methods, published in 1912. Contemporary catalog records identify him as the author of that book, and editions of the work present him as a First Lieutenant of Cavalry in the U.S. Army.
The book is a concise, hands-on manual focused on training horses for mounted service. Rather than aiming for literary flourish, it gathers and explains techniques Pope considered sound, established, and useful in practice, which gives the work a straightforward, instructional tone.
Very little biographical information about Pope was easy to confirm from reliable online sources beyond his birth year, authorship, and military connection. Available memorial and catalog records indicate he lived from 1879 to 1963, but the surviving public record appears much thinner than the record of his book itself.