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“r OT any wild bomt around vT your ranch In Mexico? the reporter asked Max Coleman.Coleman, Lubbock attorney, needed only that much priming.Long ago in the beginning of this civilization on the North Americancontinent (he began) horses were unknown in this country. Then came the Spanish invasion. SpaiK since the dawning of history had been noted lor its fine horses. So in coming to America the Conquistadors brought their powerful, fast horses. Gray and white were the p r edominating colors, the white contrasting with black mane and tail and black rings around the eyes.Covered With Wild HemsThe continent was covered with luxuriant grass. By the laws of chance many horses escaped, and some were turned loose crippled or exhausted. These soon multiplied and covered the western states with wild horses. The Indians quickly learned the act of catching them. Many were . killed, and captured, but so adept at caring for himself is the wild horse that it is only in the last few years they have been exterminated, and then only because a canning factory was opened at. Gallup, N. M., and horses were killed, canned and returned to Europ* from which they came as food for the descendants of those explorers.* * *tN 1540, a Spaniard named Coro-nario Mnifir^ri Npw Mpvirn fnrwhite with black man* and tail, and black rings around his eyes, It soon became known among the Indians that the beat wild horseswere caught on the Escondido mountain, but in spite of Indians, trappers and other hazards of the wild, there was always a survival of the fittest, aiid a wild horse band continued to exist.Wu True T* His WardTrue to his word, Lieutenant Oa-vooldoone returned, locating where the village of Mangnas stands today, He married an Indian princess, thus securing protection from marauding Indians and before he died became the first large sheep and cattle raiser in that country. His brand was 3X.Finally the Indians were placed on reservation. Then the wild horses increased like a plague. With the settling of the country the ranchmen began making war on them and their numbers were greatly curtailed. -IN 1917, the first wire fences were being erected Jn western New Mexico. They always spelled the doom of the wild horse. Little ranchmen were coming in from Texas. I bought the Nutria springs. Some 20 miles south, Bob McCord from Denton, Texas had settled, and at Maryana spring was c. S. (Choc) Brannln from Benjamin. Living on: the; Mangnas creek was Francisco GabaWon. His people had lived there so long they could
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Morning Avalanche
Lubbock, Texas, US
Wed, Aug 09, 1939
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