He has become a musician of international renown without ever experiencing what can beclassified a hit: While "Alice's Restaurant" and "Coming Into Los Angeles" were immensely popular among crowds at the 1969 Woodstock and Newport Folk Festival, they didn't gain much radio airplay.
This evidence is to be found in the enormous quantities of heretofore classified official U.S. documents that are beginning to come into the public domain.
Seventy percent of US horses sold for slaughter are Quarter Horses or classified as Quarter Horse types (a category that may very well be the mask for wild horses sold into slaughter).