Talk:Black Jack (horse)

boots reversed
Fixed a minor error: it said "boots and stirrups reversed". That should be "boots reversed in the stirrups". The stirrups themselves are not reversed. In fact, the english-type stirrups used by Black Jack (see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/BlackJackTheRiderlessHorse.jpg) can't really be 'reversed' -- they look the same front and back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by T-bonham (talk • contribs) 16:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks.  Montanabw (talk) 04:37, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

one of two horses buried
The "Comanche"- articel states:

"Comanche is often described as the sole survivor of Custer's detachment, but like so many other legends surrounding the Little Bighorn battle, this one is false. As historian Evan S. Connell writes in Son of the Morning Star:

"Comanche was reputed to be the only survivor of the Little Bighorn, but quite a few Seventh Cavalry mounts survived, probably more than one hundred, and there was even a yellow bulldog. Comanche lived on another fifteen years, and when he died, he was stuffed and to this day remains in a glass case at the University of Kansas. So, protected from moths and souvenir hunters by his humidity-controlled glass case, Comanche stands patiently, enduring generation after generation of undergraduate jokes. The other horses are gone, and the mysterious yellow bulldog is gone, which means that in a sense the legend is true. Comanche alone survived." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.53.92.199 (talk) 20:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Eisenhower Funeral?
Was Black Jack also the horse used at the Eisenhower funeral? It would fit, since he was the horse of choice for such events...but I can find no reference stating it was him.

At the same time, in addition to being used for funerals before and after, the horse in video from the Eisenhower funeral looks suspiciously like Black Jack.

141.217.224.72 (talk) 23:34, 6 September 2011 (UTC)