Legends of the West

In the annals of North American history, the fabled lore of the horse and the mountain man are two of the most chronicled and beloved. From Columbus’s introduction of the horse to the New World in 1494 to the empirical battle to control North America through the fur trade, the wild mustang and equally untamed fur trapper remain legendary icons of the American West. Long before the first companies of European fur trappers arrived in North America, the Spanish Empire brought the horse to the sh