In 1900, there were more than 21 million horses at work in the United States. By 1960, there were fewer than 2 million. Decline began when their use was partly replaced by rail and steam engines. For a while, they were still utilized in fields, short-distance transport and in armies. The arrival of the internal combustion engine, however, made them completely irrelevant and obsolete.
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