The American Made Mustang

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The paper discusses the wild horses referred to as mustangs, their origins, how they were tamed and trained, their offspring and traces their development and management through the ages. Today these horses, originally brought in by the Spanish, are protected by the US Bureau of Land Management.

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"The Bureau of Land Management's definition of the wild horses and burros verbatim: "A wild horse or burro is an unbranded, unclaimed, free-roaming horse or burro found on BLM or U.S. Forest Service administered land in the western United States. Wild horses and burros are descendants of animals released by or escaped from Spanish explorers, ranchers, miners, soldiers, or Native Americans" (1997). The horses once numbered in the hundreds of thousands causing trouble with the ranchers and the developing population. Anyone was free to capture and sell for profit the horses and burros they could catch and big roundups were once made, some roundups simply ran the horses off of a big cliff and they were left to die. Wild horse numbers were dwindling drastically; five thousand were thought to exist, mostly in Nevada's rough desert. Velma Johnston of Reno, in her effort to save the horses from brutal treatment while being captured for dog food, fought for them and in 1959 the Wild Horse Annie Bill was passed by Congress to protect the feral horses from being captured via motorized vehicles or aircraft on public land."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Denhardt, R. (1975). The horse of the Americas. OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
• Dobie, J. (1952). The Mustangs. New York: Bantam Books.
• Rarey, J. (1856). The modern art of taming wild horses. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books.
• Ryden, H. (1978). America's last wild horses. New York: Sequoia-Elsevier.
• U.S. Department of the Interior. (1997). So you'd like to adopt. Bureau of Land Management.

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