My Father Taught Responsibility With a Horse Named General

My sister wanted a horse. My dad asked for a business plan.

My oldest sister was “horse crazy” in the early 1950s. That’s the word she used when telling me about it, so it must be true. From my point of view as a seven- year-old, one day there was suddenly a big horse named General in our barn.

She had bought General for $150. That sounds impossibly inexpensive even for the time, but General was an older horse, so his owners may have got the better part of the…