A Percheron draft horse used for sightseeing tours of Victorian Cape May died earlier this week while pulling a carriage, published reports say. Here’s what we know about the death of the horse ...

Horses and oxen provided a lot of the power on American farms until the mid -1800s. Oxen were too slow to pull some of the new machinery. Producers were using in the 1850s and 1860s. Most of the ...