Friday, July 08, 2005

End of the Trail

Here's a link to one of the best things I've seen published about the legal push to erase wild horses from the range:
Click here.

Written by author Deanne Stillman in the July 4 Boston Globe, it begins with the story of Comanche, a mustang ridden in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
You may have heard Comanche's story before, but Deanne Stillman does a great job of following America's mustangs from that day in 1876 when about 2 million wild horses roamed the West up to 1950, when there were 50,000 to today, when there are perhaps 28,000 wild horses. It doesn't take a math whiz to see where we're headed.

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