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Ep. 11: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses

Ep. 11: Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses

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When the western artist George Catlin journeyed to the Southern
Plains in 1834 the animal that caught his attention there was the
wild horse, which covered the country in immense herds. Little
known to Catlin, or to Thomas Jefferson, who longed to know about
horses in their natural state, horses were so successful in the
western wilds because they were original natives of North
America. Eventually a trade in wild horses dominated the southern
West the way the fur trade did in the North. Native people
initiated the trade, Hispanics in Texas perfected the art of
capture, and from 1790 into the 1850s independent American
traders captured, traded for, and drove wild horses east to
supply the advancing American frontier. Little known in western
history because until the 1920s it lacked a corporate player, the
wild horse trade was an unexpected success and mustangers a
working-class phenomenon of the West.

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