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A blue-eyed Palomino mare approaches for a closer look. The U.S. government released Thoroughbred horses at Nevada’s Sheldon range to mix with the Standardbred bloodlines making a bigger, faster “war horse.” During World War I and II, horses were rounded up from Sheldon, loaded onto railroad cars and taken to the East Coast where they were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Horses that survived the journey had a bit placed in their mouths and began to pull artillery or serve as a cavalry mount. A shipment of 500 horses left every day and a half to supply American and Allied troops. Nearly eight million horses died in World War I alone.
Remnants of the “war horse” herds roamed free until they were totally removed from the Sheldon National Wildlife Range.
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- Mustangs: Spirit of the Shrinking West_National Geographic magazine 2/2009
