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Over one hundred years of wild horse headlines
Wild Horses in Arizona
1897, St. Louis Globe-Democrat
"There must be 20,000 head of wild horses in Northern Arizona," said
Will S. Barnes, one of the largest cattle owners In Navajo County,
recently. "They are the worst nuisance one can imagine."
The Wild Horses of Nevada; Worth but $2 Each on the Plains,
and a Great Nuisance to Cattlemen
1894, San Francisco Examiner
R.L. Fulton of Reno, for a number of years agent of the land department
of the Central Pacific Railroad, tells a strange story of the wild
horses now roaming over Nevada, and of the steps that have been taken
to get rid of them.
War on The Wild Horses; Wyoming Stockmen Organizing Hunters
to Pursue Them
1884, New York Times
Dec. 12, Cheyenne - Wild horses have become so numerous on the Plains
that some of the stockmen in this vicinity have organized a hunting
party whose object will be to thin them out.
Wild Horses in Kansas
1874, New York Times
Large numbers of wild horses abound on the prairies between the
Arkansas and Smokey Hill rivers. They are of all sizes and colors
and are the wildest of all wild animals.
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