Weeeeell, Bust My Buttons, That’s a Horse of Different Color!
Posted by Texas Mustang Project on March 24, 2010
- Wild Horse Beats Odds
- BLM Sets Sale of Wild Horses in Northern Wyoming POWELL, Wyo. (AP) – Horse lovers will have the opportunity to adopt a wild horse from the McCullough Peaks Herd Management Area in northern Wyoming on April 9th and 10th.
- H.R. 4867 Introduced into the House of Representatives on March 17, 2010 by Congressman Walter B. Jones, NC-3 “To direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement to provide for management of the free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge.”
- Corolla Wild Horse website
- Corolla Wild Horse History from KBRHorse.net
- Wild Horse Adoptions in Edinburgh this Weekend
- Wild Horses Leaving Southern Illinois, Concerns Remain – you really do want to read this one… video too.
- Court Set to Hear Challenge to Feds’ Care of Wild Horses
- Wild Horses in a Georgia Wilderness? Cumberland Island National Seashore Completes Annual Count
- Shackleford Banks Wild Horses
- A Horse is a Horse Of Course… Until He Gets a Song…
- The BLM Eastern States Webpage: info on upcoming adoptions, internet and onsite.
- The International Museum of the Horse
- T-BAR Rescue, Brenham, TX – The De’Aeth Family and their wonderful rescues won big with ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover Edition in 2006…
- Habitat for Horses
- Mustangs – from the Handbook of Texas Online
- From The Little Rock Arkansas Gazette of July 10, 1839, speaking of the Mustangs of Texas: “The mustang or wild horse is certainly the greatest curiosity to those unaccustomed to the sight, that we meet with upon the prairies of Texas. They are seen in vast numbers, and are often times of exceeding beauty. The spectator is compelled to stand in amazement, and contemplate this noble animal, as he bounds over the earth, with the conscious pride of freedom. We still meet with many in the lower counties, and during the summer hundreds were seen in the neighborhood of Houston, darting over the plains, and seeming to dare the sportsman for a contest in the chase.”
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sandra longley said
I guess a bleeding heart in the 1800s is the same as a bleeding heart in 2010..a bleeding heart and an angry woman..not something you want to mess with without some rattlesnake repellent!!
themustangproject said
LOL aw, come on… Not a bleeding heart, just a great journalist!
T.
jan said
got notice from madeline pickens website of a new book on wild horse annie – called wild horse annie and last of the mustangs – written by david cruise and anne griffiths – its out now – if you go to the website there is a great video on wild horse annie – boy we sure could use her today – she was a fighter – and there is a movie in the works
note from cloud – tomorrow is the mustang march in washington and was said that jane velez mitchel will carry some of the video on the march – at 7::30 pm but here in the west it would be 4:30 – and she is on cnn affiliate station hln so ck your listings – i found her show from 4 to 5 on charter listings for my area – will tape if its on there otherwise it might be online on cnn or hln websites