Willis_J._Powell
Willis J. Powell is the author of Tachyhippodamia; on The New Secret of Taming Horses to which John Solomon Rarey's work, Taming of Wild Horses, was appended for publication. This book was issued before Powell died in 1848, but no publishing date is stated in the book itself. A later reprint was in 1872, in Philadelphia, by the W.R. Charter publishing house. It can still be purchased as a rare book and as reprinted by the University of Michigan. Powell mentions the Irish "horse whisperer" Daniel Sullivan in the preface to his own book, and says that Sullivan may have possessed the same method. Later in that same book, Powell recounts hearing of a man who had lived a century earlier and who had a secret method of taming horses, and resolving to discover that method.
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Powell traveled from Louisiana to Mexico, living there for about 12 years, and then to Cuba, Guatemala and California, taming horses. He apparently made a good living doing so.[citation needed] He also was a polyglot, speaking five languages: English, French, Greek, Latin and Spanish.[1]