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It is natural to believe that wild horses have "always" roamed America's Western states, but this is simply not case. Horses originated in North America until the end of the last ice age, 10-12,000 years ago, then they vanished.

It took the joint actions of Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortez, put horses in North America. In 1493, Christopher Columbus brought horses from Spain to the Caribbean during his second voyage to the Americas. In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Cortez brought horses to the mainland, like Captain the third Spanish expedition.

Horses arrived in North America, through Mexico and Florida, as a tool of the Spanish conquistadors and have been used successfully by Cortez in the defeat of the Aztec empire.

Many wild horses after their riders were killed. Other horses escaped from their enclosures, and many more horses have been incorporated into Native American societies. Within a few decades, the horses had emigrated from Mexico and Florida and entered the interior of North America.

The History of American Horse Breeds

Nearly all wild horses running in the range of U.S. West were from the Iberian Peninsula of southwestern Europe, a region defined by the current Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations indicates that 17 breeds of horses that individual can be defined as "Iberian horses". Three breeds originating of Portugal and the remaining 14 were from Spain. Most of the Iberian horse breeds are considered baroque horses, comprised mostly horse Andalusian, Barb and Arab descent.

Many Native American tribes of horse breeders became master, most importantly, the Comanche, Shoshone, and Nez Perce nations. Through selective breeding by Native American tribes, the first American race horse was real the Appaloosa.

The wild horses of the western United States are in fact more accurately described as horses that have gone "wild" or horses that have been domesticated and are now wild. Just as there is a huge population of stray dogs near the major cities of America, especially near Miami, Florida, there is also a large population of wild horses in America.

Free-Roaming Horses Finally, should be protected Congress

In 1900, he estimated there were as many as two million horses at liberty in the United States. During the early years twentieth century, free-roaming horse population has been greatly reduced through a combination of factors, including the capture of horses for use in the army, and most revolting, by companies which have killed horses for dog food.

In the 1970s, the fate of wild horses in the United States drew the attention of the U.S. federal government. This newly focused attention eventually led to the adoption of the Free-Roaming Wild Horses and Burros Act of 1971.

In recent years it has been estimated by the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management that there are as many as 29,000 wild horses and donkeys on BLM-managed lands in ten western states. The ten western states the United States that have wild horses that roam includes: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.

It is estimated that more than half of the wild horse population resides in Nevada and Montana and Oregon are the other states with significant wild horse numbers population. There are still a few hundred head of horses in the wild in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

With the Agreement Free Wild Horses "roaming" and Burros Act of 1971, the Bureau of Land Management has the responsibility to manage the number of donkeys and wild horses to ensure that healthy herds thrive on healthy rangelands. Under the mandate of the BLM, they are responsible for managing the herd numbers of horses wild donkeys that roam the American West.

The BLM Wild Horse and Burro adoption program and sell

Wild horses left to their own intelligence can literally double their population in just four years, provided that the drought and fires do not reduce not their numbers naturally. The horses have no natural predators in pastures of North America, their numbers will generally run without control, without intervention BLM.

The beauty of the 1971 Act is that the BLM slaughter of horses and donkeys of the wild population, horses and donkeys available for adoption and for sale through the BLM program to individuals and groups who are willing and able to provide humane, the long-term care for these magnificent animals.

To learn more about the adoption of the purchase of horses and donkeys, you can visit the Bureau of Land Management website at: blm.gov or give them a call at: (866) 4MUSTANGS. You can actually adopt and purchase of wild horses through the program BLM in the States on both sides of the Mississippi River. Sales are held each year throughout the South West and even in Illinois.

If you are looking for domesticated mustang horses, you can also check local or internet horse classifieds.

Philipe Wiskell is a writer for HorseClicks.com, popular classifieds of horses for sale, horse trailers, farms for sale.

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