Seabiscuit: An American Legend

A Sound of Horses

, p. 185.

3

“Lone Plainsman”: “Like Mike and Ike,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, n.d.

4

Smith’s history: Obituary,

Blood-Horse

, January 19, 1957, p. 338; “Alarm Clock for Training,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, 1936; “Seabiscuit Makes Debut,”

Los Angeles Times

, December 28, 1936; “They Do Come Back,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, fall 1939; Moody,

Come On Seabiscuit

, pp. 23–29; “Seabiscuit Trainer History,”

Morning Telegraph, SB

, fall 1937.

5

“Cowboy Charlie”: Willard Porter, “Big Charlie Irwin,”

True West

, September 1987, pp. 38–43; “Riddle Walked In,”

SB

, fall 1938; “Old West Cowboy Dies,”

The New York Times

, March 24, 1934, p. 1; “450 Pound Horseman,” uncredited clipping, n.d.; Bill Buck, telephone interview, January 28, 1998; Wad Studley, telephone interview, February 6, 1999; Tommy Bell, telephone interview, June 22, 1999; Keith Stucki, telephone interview, March 25, 1998; Noble Threewit, telephone interview, January 17, 1998; Jimmy Jones, telephone interview, February 3, 1999; “Seabiscuit’s Trainer Pupil of Famous Cowboy Irwin,”

SB

, 1937.

6

Work under Irwin: “Tom Smith Sets Sights,”

San Francisco News

, March 27, 1939; Keith Stucki, telephone interview, March 25, 1998.

7

Indian reservations: “Riddle Walked In,”

SB

, fall 1938.

8

Knighthood: “They Do Come Back,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, fall 1939.

9

squatting down on floor: “Alarm Clock for Training,”

San Francisco Chronicle, SB

, 1936.

10

watching a horse … for hours: “Kayak II and the ‘Biscuit’; A Namesake Turns Out Well,”