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trating to a point near the boundary ments by the unassailable fact that
horses are, by nature, great travelers.
of Kansas and Nebraska.
What Others Claim
Then, beginning about 1600, the
Spaniards established a chain of Chris­
Others claim, just as surely and vo­
tian missions among the Indians in ciferously that these Indian-mustang
the New World. These extended from horses were obtained chiefly from
By DR. M. E. ENSMINGER
the eastern coast of Mexico up the Rio Santa Fe, ancient Spanish mission
Clovis, California
Artists, writers, TV and movies com­ Grande, then across the mountains founded in 1606. Credence to the lat­
monly picture the early American to the Pacific Coast. Each mission ter theory is lent by the established
Indian astride a pony. As a result, brought animals, including horses, fact that Santa Fe and other early
Spanish missions were the known
many folks have the impression that from the mother country.
source of Spanish Longhorn cattle.
the Red Man had horses from time
Most historians agree that both
Both groups are agreed that the
immemorial. Nothing could be fur­ Indian ponies and hardy bands of
coming of the horse among the Indians
ther from the truth.
mustangs, the feral (wild) horses of increased the strife and wars between,
the Great Plains, were descended from tribes. Following the buffalo on horse­
237 With DeSoto’s Band
It is clearly established that horses animals of Spanish extraction. But back led to greater infringement upon
were first brought directly to what is there are two schools of thought rela­ each other’s hunting grounds, which
now in the United States by DeSoto in tive to the common source of founda­ had ever been a cause for war. From
the year 1593. Upon his several vessels, tion stock; and those espousing each the time the Indians came into pos­
he had 237 horses. These animals theory argue long, loud, and some­ session of horses until the country was
traveled with the army of the energetic times bitterly.
taken over by the white man, there
Spanish explorer in the hazardous
Some contend that the foundation was no peace among the tribes.
journey extending from the Everglades stock of the Indian pony and the mus­
of Florida to the Ozarks of Missouri. tang came from the abandoned and
Following DeSoto's death and burial stray horses of the expeditions of De­ Big Show Coming Up
in the upper Mississippi three years Soto and Coronado. Those who dis­ In Jasper, Alabama
later, his followers returned by boats agree claim that the horses left behind
Walker County’s 10th Annual Horse
down the Mississippi, abandoning were too crippled and too scattered; Show in Jasper, Ala., is offering §1,305
many of their horses.
that they could not possibly have worth of prize money with 15 classes
One year following DeSoto's landing gotten together and propagated. But on July 20 at 7 p.m. in the Fair
in what is now Florida, in 1540, an­ those who cling to this school of think­ Grounds. It is sponsored by the Jasper
other Spanish explorer, Coronado, ing counter that horses have keen junior Chamber of Commerce and the
started an expedition with an armed senses of smell and hearing for their, Walker County Cattlemen Assn. For
band of horsemen from Mexico, pene­ kind, and then they clinch their argu-G •information, write to the sponsors.
Horses Came To U. S.
With DeSoto In 1593
BAR-B-DON Stables
• PLEASURE HORSES
• BROOD MARES, direct
daughters of Midnight Sun.
With Colts by Side.
• YEARLINGS
• SHOW PROSPECTS
MERRY GO BOY COLTS-MARES IN FOAL
TO MIDNIGHT SUN AND OLD GLORY JR.
• AT STUD
Maids Midnight Blue
570039
AMATEUR AND PLEASURE HORSES
(By Midnight Pleasure R G out
of Merry Maiden)
Sterlings Sunset
SS 560555
'YOUR PLEASURE IS OUR PLEASURE'
(By Sterling Silver out of
Sunset's Orphan)
TRAINING
SHOWING
BOARDING
D. L. CASSIDY, D.V.M., Owner
HOLLY TREE
FRED PHILLIPS, SHELBYVILLE, TENN.
Bus. 684-7778
Office 217 E. Holland
BOB ONEY, Trainer
MONTICELLO, IOWA
Phone HO 5-3311
FARM
(Farm 684-4827)
Res. 684-5485