This author was the non-headless horseman when he explored Oklahoma on a stout silver-gray in 1832

Elizabeth in his novel The Pioneers is based on his sister Hannah who died when she fractured her skull falling off a horse

Robert Louis Stevenson rode his horse Jack to Apia now capital of this Pacific island nation

Soon after his death in 1910 tourists began visiting his Yasnaya Polyana estate where they saw his dog Belka & his horse Delir

He wrote about Riders of the Purple Sage & owned 2 horses called Black Star & Night