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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 October 2024. Horses running at a ranch in Texas Horses have been an important component of American life and culture since before the founding of the nation. In 2023, there were an estimated 6.65 million horses in the United States, with 1.5 million horse owners, 25 million citizens that participate ...
Horses arrived in South America beginning in 1531, and by 1538 there were horses in Florida. From these origins, horses spread throughout the Americas. By one estimate there were at least 10,000 free-roaming horses in Mexico by 1553. [2] In 2010, the Colonial Spanish mustang was voted the official state horse of North Carolina. [8]
The American Indian Horse is defined by its breed registry as a horse that may carry the ancestry of the Spanish Barb, Arabian, Mustang, or "Foundation" Appaloosa. [1] It is the descendant of horses originally brought to the Americas by the Spanish and obtained by Native American people. [ 2 ]
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The Spanish brought horses to California for use at their missions and ranches, where permanent settlements were established in 1769. [47] Horse numbers grew rapidly, with a population of 24,000 horses reported by 1800. [49] By 1805, there were so many horses in California that people began to simply kill unwanted animals to reduce ...
Horses only returned to the Americas with Christopher Columbus in 1493. These were Iberian horses first brought to Hispaniola and later to Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, and, in 1538, Florida. [55] The first horses to return to the main continent were 16 specifically identified [clarification needed] horses brought by Hernán Cortés.
Galicenos were used by Spaniards in silver mines and as pack horses; in the latter role they moved further northward with the Spanish missions and were sometimes lost in battle or stolen by Indians. These horses eventually became part of the Mustang herds of the American West, as well as playing a role in the ancestry of the American Indian ...
The earliest horses were originally of Spanish, Barb and Arabian ancestry, [29] but a number of uniquely American horse breeds developed in North and South America through selective breeding and by natural selection of animals that escaped to the wild and became feral.