The bands of wild horses I noticed were sometimes led by mules, but generally by stallions with long wavy manes, and flowing tails which almost touched the ground.
Between the Rio Grande and the Nueces there was at that time a large band of wild horses feeding; as numerous, probably, as the band of buffalo roaming further north was before its rapid extermination commenced.
People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846.
Byron thus describes a troop of wild horses: "A trampling troop; I see them come!
The capture and breaking in ofwild horses in America are described by Miers as follows-- "The lasso is used by the natives of South America.
At the time of the discovery of America there were no wild horses in any part of the continent.
We fell in with a new species of game to-day;--a large band of wild horses.
Marse Tommy comes to de ranch when I's herdin' de wild horses.
Marse Dailey he helps to cotch de wild horses but I has to drive 'em.
When I'm on de ranch I has to drive de wild horses into de pen.
De men cotches dewild horses and I has to drive 'em so's dey won't git wild agin.
In the course of our morning's ride of twenty miles, we saw several gangs of wild horses, and with these we distinguished numbers of colts and some mules.
Some of them appeared to have been recently travelled by men with horses, such paths being easily distinguished from those of bisons or wild horses.
In the afternoon the country we passed was swarming with innumerable herds of bison, wild horses, deer, elk, &c.
While we were at breakfast one morning, the guide ran in to say that the herd of wild horses which we had seen on Silver Creek, were feeding toward us, a mile away.
As it came nearer and nearer the cry arose: "Wild horses, wild horses!
I didn't ride on wild horses; neither did I find a castle with a skull in it.
I had faith in this man's opinion, who, having passed his life in the observation of wild and half-wild horses, had a perfect knowledge of their habits.
The steed had galloped after a drove of wild horses; he had overtaken them; and at the point where we now were, had been passing along in their midst!
A drove of wild horses," pronounced the guides at a glance.
As we came close to them a band of wild horses scented us and went in a wild, mad rush out of the breaks.
We had ascended a rise in the plain where we had an excellent view for many miles around in all directions—and there on west and southwest, scattered over many thousands of acres of land, were bands of wild horses.
Looking eastward for many miles, several bunches of wild horses were in sight.
I have often seen flocks of antelopes mistaken for droves of elks or wild horses, and when at a great distance, even for horsemen; whereby frequent alarms are occasioned.
The next day, at sunset, we received a visit from an immense herd of mustangs (wild horses).
The party arrived at the grove by two o'clock, and established their permanent camp, as they saw the unmistakable signs that a herd of wild horses made it their nightly rendezvous.
They then mounted their ponies, and stealthily walked the animals in the direction of the slumbering bunch of wild horses.
Joe rode alongside of White Wolf in the centre of the column, and they talked of the probability of finding the herd of wild horses on the salt marsh where they were going.
She has gone with her father to a hunt of wild horses.
General Ibanez will proceed, as from you, to the governor, and invite him to a grand hunt of wild horses, to take place in three days.
I showed him the documents I had brought with me from the President and other authorities, and expressed a desire of putting in practice, in that town the ability I possessed of taming, in a few hours, wild horses.
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