My Collection of Horse Stories By: Donald Gilman In Donald Gilman's My Collection of Horse Stories, readers will be immersed in the majesty of many periods of our world history, but from a different point of viewthe point of view of the horses that led man through many treacherous and turbulent times. Gilman takes readers through the American Old West, Egypt and Rome, wonderfully personifying the horses and their feelings of compassion, drive and strength.