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The mustang
The mustang horse is a very well-known horse which is held by many americans as a living symbol of the historic and cowboy spirit of the Old wild west.
Although Mustangs are habitually referred to as 'wild' horses, the more appropriate word is 'feral' horses as almost all free-roaming horses inside Mexico and the u.s. are bred from horses that were originally domestic horses brought to Mexico and the u.s. by the spanish conquistadors.
In most cases, these foreign horses were of European or Arabian origins, but had amongst them all combinations of colours and many people types and breeds.
It is thought that some of these great horses escaped or were traded by the indigenous inhabitants, and soon spread throughout the whole of the u.s.
The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas ordinarily show a leopard spotted coat, white sclera (the part of the eye around the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The story of this unusual horse is only partly known. There is plenty of proof that mottled horses were established in quite a few countries in Asia, and historians have found cave pictures which have been dated to 18000BC illustrating spotted horses that may be the origins of the horse we know today. It seems likely that the spotted skin was initially a form of camouflage, similar to the striped pattern on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa descends from horses shipped over to The u.s. by early colonists. These were passed to the Nez perce indian tribe, who proficiently bred them into the fantastic horses that we know at the present time.
The appaloosa was in the first instance referred to as the "Palouse horse", even though over time the name was changed into the modern-day adaptation, "Appaloosa".
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