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The mustang
The mustang horse is a very famous horse that is seen by many americans as a live symbol of the influential and cowboy enthusiasm of the American wild west.
Even though Mustangs are regularly called 'wild' horses, the more appropriate term is 'feral' horses as all free-roaming horses in The usa are related to horses that were in the first instance domesticated horses shipped to America by the conquistadors.
The majority of these early horses were of Spanish or Arabian stock, but also included all conceivable colors and many people types and breeds.
It is believed that some of these great horses were set free or were taken by the indigenous inhabitants, and quickly spread right through the whole country
The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas classically show a leopard spotted skin, colorless sclera (the bit of the eye close to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The background of this attractive horse is not totally known. There is proof that mottled horses were established in many nations in Europe, and archeologists have found cave pictures which have been dated back to 18000BC clearly showing spotty horses that could well be be related to the modern appaloosa. It is possible that the mottled pattern was in the first instance a form of camouflage, serving a similar purpose to the stripes on a zebra.
The modern Appaloosa descends from horses carried to America by early colonists. These were somehow acquired by the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who expertly engineered them into the superb horses that we so admire these days.
This wonderful horse was originally called the "Palouse horse", although slowly the name transformed into the present-day variation, "Appaloosa".
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