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Saving America’s First True Horse

by | Sep 1, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

Spanish Mustangs, on the brink of extinction, are slowly making a comeback.
Don Juan kept his little band of mares in the pine forest at the edge of a pond. He was alert but unconcerned. Life was good for the stallion. Plenty of prairie grass flourished and once a day, the feed truck spread grain on the ground so the band would get fat. That’s all the herd of 23 Spanish Mustangs had to do, graze and look pretty, romp and


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