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The mustang horse
The mustang is a wellknown horse that is seen by many people as a symbolic representation of the influential and adventurous enthusiasm of the Old wild west.
Although Mustangs are routinely known as 'wild' horses, the more appropriate phrase is 'feral' horses as most free-roaming horses living in America are related to horses that were by origin domestic horses shipped to Mexico and the u.s. by the early colonists.
The majority of these imported horses were of Spanish or Arab origins, but included all conceivable colours and many americans breed types.
A few of these independent and clever horses got loose or were stolen by indigenous peoples, and rapidly spread right through the whole of the u.s.
The Appaloosa
Appaloosas naturally display a leopard spotted skin, white sclera (the bit of the eye around the cornea) and striped hooves.
The history of this unusual horse is not totally known. There is plenty of proof that mottled horses were present in quite a few nation-states in 'the old world', and historians have found cave paintings which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing mottled horses that could well be be related to the modern appaloosa. It is very likely that the spotted pattern was in the first instance a form of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the stripes on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa is descended from horses brought to The usa by early settlers. These were somehow acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who masterfully turned them into the marvelous horses that we admire these days.
The appaloosa was in the first instance called the "Palouse horse", although bit by bit the name changed into the present-day rendering, "Appaloosa".
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