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The Mustang Horse
The mustang is a very popular horse that is seen by many as a symbolic representation of the influential and cowboy excitement of the American wild west.
But Mustangs are usually known as 'wild' horses, the more correct term is 'feral' horses as all free-roaming horses established in The u.s. are descended from horses that were first domestic horses carried to Mexico and the u.s. by the early colonists.
In most cases, these early horses were of Spanish or Arabian stock, but had amongst them all combinations of colors and many breeds.
Many of these independent and brave horses were set free or were stolen by the indigenous tribes, and swiftly spread through the whole of the u.s..
The Appaloosa horse
Appaloosas ordinarily display a mottled (or 'spotty') coat, pale sclera (the part of the eye next to the cornea) and vertically striped hooves.
The history of this attractive horse is not totally known. There is proof that spotted horses were found in very many geographical regions in Europe, and we know of cave drawings which are as old as to 18000BC showing spotted horses that might be related to the horse we know today. It seems likely that the mottled pattern was first a type of camouflage, similar to the zebra's stripes.
The modern-day Appaloosa is descended from horses carried to Mexico and the u.s. by settlers. These were passed to the Indigenous people known as the 'nez perce', who proficiently bred them into the terrific horses that we so admire nowadays.
The horse was initially referred to as the "Palouse horse", although gradually its name has changed into the present-day variation, "Appaloosa".
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