FROM THE 1900s
U.S. Urged to Help Wild Horse Herd; Panel Asks Protection
for 100 Montana Mustangs
1969, New York Times
Washington, D.C., June 20 - A panel of land resource experts recommended
today that the wild horse — a vanishing symbol of the Old West —
be given better protection so he could continue to roam the open
range.
Panel Studies Montana-Wyoming Wild Horse Herd
1968, New York Times
Billings, Mont., Dec. 25 - Wild horses roaming the newly created
Pryor Wild Horse Range, a 31,000-acre refuge established last September
by the Federal Bureau of Land Management, have won the right to continue
in their domain, but the terms of the victory are still to be decided.
Mustangs, Limited; The U.S. acts to restrict methods of
capturing the vanishing wild horse
1960, New York Times
An occupation that once was considered romantic and even heroic
in the making of the American West — the pursuit and capture of
wild horses — has come under a black cloud and, as a practical matter,
been outlawed.
Wild
Horse Annie
1959, Time Magazine
Last week the wild horses had their day in Congress. Their frail,
unlikely-looking champion, Mrs. Velma B. Johnston, 47 is a Reno secretary.
Ten years ago she was shocked to see a truckload of frightened, bleeding
wild horses on their way to the slaughterhouse. She investigated the
methods of roundup and was even more deeply disturbed, launched a campaign
that has won her the nickname, "Wild Horse Annie." For two
hours last week. Wild Horse Annie told her story to 16 interested members
of a House Judiciary subcommittee. The mustangs are flushed from their
hilly retreats by low-flying airplanes, whose pilots pursue the animals
across the prairies until they are near exhaustion. Then trucks take
up the chase. Finally, the horses are lassoed with ropes weighted with
truck tires or other heavy objects. The horses drag the weights around
until they drop. Then they are hobbled, hauled into the truck. Since
Wild Horse Annie's campaign got under way, most Western states have
outlawed mustang hunting by plane on state lands. After hearing her
testimony last week, many sympathetic Congressmen agreed that the practice
should be outlawed on federal lands, too.
Eisenhower Signs Bill Protecting Wild Horses
1959, New York Times
Washington, D.C., Sept. 8 - President Eisenhower signed into law
today a bill making it a Federal offense to hunt wild horses on public
lands or ranges from an airplane or a motor vehicle.
Cattlemen Propose Shooting Wild Horses for Meat
1948, New York Times
Portland, Ore., July 31 - In the face of objections from conservation
groups, some Western cattlemen have proposed that wild horses from
the upland ranges of the Far West might be used as a new source of
food for the hungry nations of Europe. They have informed the Economic
Cooperation Administration that the wild steeds can be delivered
at packing plants for 3 1/2 cents a pound on the hoof.
Wild
Horse Round-Up
1939, Time Magazine
In wilder days, wild horse roundups were carried on periodically
for the Portland, Ore. firm of Schlesser Bros., then the world's
biggest packers of horsemeat. In five years (1925-30) the Schlessers
slaughtered some 300,000 head of outlaws, salted their meat in 51-gallon barrels, shipped most of it to Holland and Scandinavia. Hooves,
ears, tails were sold for glue and oil; ground bones and scraps for
chickenfeed; hides for baseballs and shoes ; blood for fertilizer;
casings for German sausage. Then the day of the wild horse began
to wane, and the Schlessers turned to packing beef. Cattlemen and
the U. S. Government have two principal reasons for desiring a clean-up
of the remaining wild horses: it will save the range for livestock,
remove the menace of the dread dourine (genital) diseases often found
in wild horses.
Rodeo's Animals Taken to Garden; Its Wild Horses Are Bigger,
Faster and More Vicious Than Any in Past
1939, New York Times
Wild horses out of the Lost River country in Idaho and the ranges
of Eastern Oregon that will be seen in Madison Square Garden at the
fourteenth annual world's championship rodeo: rounded up by planes,
16 carloads of stock brought here for championship events.
Wild Horses of the West Are Vanishing; Symbol of Pioneer
America, the Bands Which Roam the Plains Are Losing the Fight to
Packers, Ranchers and Predatory Animals
1935, New York Times
Horses
that know no master still survive in the Far West. Over the upland
plateaus of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Nevada there
yet gallop fleet ponies and big-boned "pull" horses
whose teeth have never champed on a bit.
To
Kill 10000 Wild
Horses
1931, New York Times
Ten thousand wild horses are to be destroyed or moved from the San
Carlos Indian Reservation near Coolidge Dam.
Round-Up,
Ground Up
1929, Time Magazine
…Yet the catching of wild horses undeniably is a U.
S. industry, and many a wild horse, caught, corralled, transported
and slaughter-housed, is packed into cans and sold as foodstuff.
Most famed Wild-Horse-Catcher is one Carl Skelton, who last week
was conducting a great wild horse round-up along the Missouri River
in Cascade County, Montana. With his five helpers, he has already
this season rounded up more than 350 horses, many of which will
end their days at the Hanson Packing Co., Butte. Mont., horse-cannery.
For the wild horse concession, Catcher Skelton has put up a $2,500
bond.
Wild
Horse Round-Up Starts in Montana; Carl Skelton, the "Boss" of
the Old-Time Range Riders, Says They Will Capture 5,000
1929, New York Times
Great
Falls, Mont., May 26 - The cry of "wild horses" came
down across the open range and away the riders raced, out across
the breaks in the range, a stretch of bad lands, beyond which the
rovers had been sighted. One of the greatest round-ups of wild horses
ever staged on the western ranges was under way.
Wild Horses Take Their Last Trail; Driving Wild Horses to
Slaughter
1928, New York Times
El
Paso, Texas - Three centuries ago, thirst-tortured Spanish conquistadores
in search of the Grand Quivera, fabled city of gold, named the
desolate 100-mile trail north from El Paso to what is now Hillsboro,
N.M., the "Jornado del Muerto" —
the Journey of Death.
Law
Passed to Rid Wyoming Of Thousands of Wild Horses
1927, New York Times
With cattlemen and sheepmen, traditional enemies of the range, united
behind it, a bill aimed at ridding the State of thousands of wild
horses has passed.
Montana Seals Fate of 400,000 Wild Horses; Legislature Signs
Death Warrant of Roaming Cayuses That Have Become a Nuisance to
the State
1925, New York Times
Four hundred thousand wild horses — mark the number, 400,000 —
are said to be running at large in the State of Montana. They are
eating up the pasturage, breaking down the fences, devastating the
farms and acting so outrageously in all other respects that they
are demoralizing and upsetting the conduct and manners of their domesticated
brethren of the plow and the saddle.
Wild Horse Hunters
1912, New York Times
An intimate story of the wild horses of the Southwest and the war
waged against them would read like a dine novel romance. In everyday
parlance, however, they are a nuisance and a pest. As horses they
are valueless and useless. They can no more be tamed and domesticated
than the hyena. All efforts — and there have been vigorous and determined
efforts made by individuals, rangemen and States — to exterminate
them have so far failed flatly.
To Kill All Wild Horses
1908, New York Times
Orders were received yesterday from the Forestry Department instructing
the rangers in the reserves in Lander County to kill all the wild
horses found on the government domain. There are about 15,000 wild
horses on the reserves.
Fleet Little Broomtails, Wild Horses of the Breaks; It is
Great Sport to Catch Them, but They Are Clever Brutes — Too Clever,
Sometimes
1904, New York Times
Perhaps
the wildest horses in North America are the "broomtails," as
the nondescript little ponies ranging the four corners of Colorado,
New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are called. Several enterprising young
fellows are engaged in the broomtail industry.
The
Taming of Cayuses; How the Gentle "Bronco Buster" Does
His Work
1902, New York Times
Col.
William F. Cody is looking forward with no little trepidation to
the turning loose in Madison Square Garden this week of the "bunch" of
200 wild horses which arrived a few days ago, and which, under the
glare of electric lights and to the music of a band in an inclosed
building are expected to go through the evolutions of the Wild West
Show. These animals were picked from the roving bands of wild horses
that range over Wyoming and the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. How
many of these horses are roaming at large in the West is impossible
to say, but the statement was made a year ago that there were 10,000
of them in Oregon alone, while there are numerous large herds that
range the Eastern slopes of the Rockies.
Wild Horses in Idaho; And Some Explanation of the War Between
Sheep Herders and Stock Men
1902, New York Times
Uncle Same, perhaps, is not aware of his total equine assets. Up
and down the Snake Valley roam herds of wild horses — beauties too,
which most persons would highly prize. Cowboys frequently surprise
these animals, shoot the stallion, and stampede and capture the mares
and colts.
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