Horse Romance

The West was won from the back of the horse. Mounted conquistadors easily subdued American Indians initially terrified by the strange beast. The term “Comanche Moon” references September raids by Comanches into Mexico for horses in the 1700s. Spanish horses quickly reached the Northern Plains and transformed the lives of nomadic Indians living there. The U.S. Cavalry, horse-drawn wagon trains and cattle herded by mounted cowboys pushing cattle across the prairie effectively ended the nomadic