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4 But Miss Knox would: Ibid.
5 First, in 1912: Ibid.
6 Among the board’s criteria: George Allison phone interview.
7 In 1954: “Knox @ 100.”
8 Every moment of a Knox: Phebe Phillips Byrne phone interview.
9 While many of the girls: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller phone interview.
10 “It was like being in jail: Ibid.
11 While some Knox: Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.
12 Girls flouted the rules: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview, George Allison interview.
13 Bonnie Cornelius grew up: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview.
14 Mrs. Phinney was: Ibid.
15 Even Sundays were: Ibid.
16 The five-day girls: Knox School yearbook, 1957.
17 Charlotte Haxall Noland: Mary Custis Lee De Butts and Rosalie Noland Woodland, eds., Charlotte Haxall Noland, 1883–1969 (Middleburg, Va.: Foxcroft, 1971).
18 M. Carey Thomas: “History of the Bryn Mawr School,” http://www.brynmawr.pvt.k12.md.us/about/history.aspx.
19 In the nineteenth century: Jane Hunter, How Young Ladies Became Girls (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), provides an excellent overview of the growth of girls’ education.
20 Swinging lightly onto: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview.
21 Now, as a riding instructor: Ibid.
22 “Rode Chief”: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller diary entry.
23 The next day at the barn: Harriet de Leyer–Strumpf interview.
24 The Meadowbrook Hunt: A. Henry Higginson and Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain, The Hunts of the United States and Canada: Their Masters, Hounds and Histories (Boston: Frank L. Wiles, 1908), pp. 72–78 and pp. 168–69.
25 Many feared that: Bradley Harris, “Still Tracking Foxes in the Smithtown Hunt,” Smithtown News, Aug. 21, 2008, p. 10.
26 Originally, the sport of foxhunting: Ibid.
27 At that time, the master: Ibid.
28 The dress code required: Lisa Mancuso, “Thrill of the Hunt: Equestrian Honored with Club Lifetime Achievement Award,” Smithtown News, Apr. 1, 2010.
29 One day, Harry and the girls: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview.
30 With the truck idling: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview and Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.
31 Bonnie remembers a hunt breakfast: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller interview.
32 Knox girls, boarders: Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.
33 At the end of one day’s hunt: Bonnie Cornelius Spitzmiller diary entry.
Chapter 6: Hollandia Farms
1 The fastest way to sell a horse: Frankie Guadagno, blacksmith apprenticed to Milton Potter as a teen, phone interview.
2 Johanna kept a neat ledger: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 36.
Chapter 7: How to Make a Living at Horses
1 Out of about two million: U.S. Census documentation, http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation
/twps0029/twps0029.html.
2 As the demand for farm labor: “Operation Wetback,” The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online
/articles/OO/pq01.html.
3 Between 1950 and 1955: “Mickey Walsh, Horse Trainer, 86,” New York Times, Aug. 19, 1983.
4 Now at the very top of his game: Matthew Parker, “Stoneybrook and Walsh, for the Love of the Race,” North Carolina Visitors Bureau, http://www.ncvisitorcenter.com/Stoneybrook
_and_Walsh.html.
5 Bill McCormick was a drinker: Bradley Harris, “Snowman, the Cinderella Horse of Hollandia Farms,” p. 12.
Chapter 8: The Stable Boy
1 From the long, tree-lined lane: Sharon Trautwein phone interview.
2 Ten-year-old Sharon: Ibid.
Chapter 9: Where the Heart Is
1 In the months since: Ed Corrigan, “Snowman Returns for Final Accolade,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 1969.
2 Horses are born: For a discussion of horses and jumping, see Vladimir S. Littauer, Common Sense Horsemanship (New York: Van Nostrand, 1951).
3 The tradition moved to England: Roger Longrigg, The Complete History of Fox Hunting (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1975), pp. 87–89.
4 Snowman had always had an intelligent: “Horse That Jumps,” Fitchburg Sentinel.
5 “I’ve got your horse”: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 41.
6 “You sold me a jumper”: Ibid.
Chapter 10: The Horse Can Jump
1 Like other mammals: M. A. Stoneridge, A Horse