Horse Country is a web site created and run by Kristine Carroll. This is her description of the Horse Country web site, and her comments about why she created the site and what she hopes to accomplish through it.
Feb. 27, 1996 Horse Country celebrated one year on the web! I've added many new horse pages this past year and hope you enjoy your visit to Horse Country. You'll find Horse History, Science, Stories, A Riders Library, Sounds and Images, Barn Smells, Associations and much more. Horse Country is also home to the Junior Riders Mailing Digest, Horse Owners Club for Kids and International Pen Pal List for horse lovers. These web pages, text, fiction, gifs and jpegs are original works by Kristine Carroll unless otherwise credited.
"I am thrilled that someone is writing on this subject and I do have some ideas to share! Briefly, let me outline the scope of what the kids involved with Horse Country are doing.Pen pals - there are almost 600 listed and they are from every corner of the globe ages 4-18. Imagine girls from Bahrain and Israel exchanging horse stories! And practicing new languages. Kids write to each other in Fr and Spanish! They also send each other .gifs so they know not only email, but attachments, file sizes, formats, cross platform issues and time zones. If you read the bios on these pages you see the incredible range of interest these kids have.
Jr Riders - we have kids interested in all aspects of the horse industry from riders to would be vets. And there are lurking adults from all the professions including architects. Oklahoma State lets me reprint their bulletins so there is plenty of ag/breed/management issues presented.
HOCK and MANE - not only are the kids writing html and sending graphic images for the web - a central part of the game is record keeping. There is a tax collector - ME. They face bankruptcy, foreclosure, loss of farm subsidies, and heavy taxes! We investigate insurance fraud, suspicious fires. I throw natural disasters at them, quarantine their barns, sideline their top horses during show season. And more: science, art, sports, spelling skills, Some kids come from farms and have horse, some have only Horse Country to keep their dreams alive."
-- Kristine Carroll