The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-18
THE LAST MUSTANGS TAKEN
4 LONG CONTEST BETWEEN MANS
3RIIN IND THE BRUTE'S SPEED.

Plan of Walking Them Down Was Dis
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the Herds and
CHAIR Wonderful Speed and Endurance.
CARRiZo SPRINGS. Tex, June 1T is pretty
ee-tan that the last mustang in southwestern
Texas is now in pen. In a little while he will
be under saddle. Then he will be Il bronco 4
bronco 1t should be explained. Is a horse not
utterly wild. lie is either the product OF
parents that have come under the domnl ion Of
man. or he has been bred in a pasture, or he Is
v half broken mustang. Tho mustang ia that
horse whose sire and dam have not felt the bit.
The chances are that for 400 years his progeni
tors have been utterly free. In every part OF
America save this. the mustang has been
Spanish horse that is. horse descended from
the Andalusian steeds brought over by
EARL spanish adventurers The start OF
him ia supposed to have been in Mexico
from stations and mares imported along with
Cortez and others OF his type. including Coro-
nado. who left many stceds scattered here and
there along his trail In southwestern Texas
tho mustang has American blood in him. This
came originally from horses left along tho
lower Rio Grande by Taylors army when it
was camped near Brownsville. Just previous to
the invasion OF Mexico. Among the horses
that the soldiers lost were many stations OF
large size They soon became as wild as the
companions they Joined. and their colonial
ton here resulted in a great increase in size
among the native wild horses. In other parts
OF the country in which the mustang has been
plentiful he has not averaged more than four
teen hands in height. Fifteen hands was quite
exceptional. But in southwestern Texas.
owing to tho presence Of American blood.
many Of the mustangs ran as high "a
fifteen hands. and in some cases the males
have gone to sixteen hands and over. 1t has
h,, ny thiS AVN Str in hos
made thcm any more tractable. Indeed. being
Allied with as much Of the devil as their smaller
congeners and being much more powerful.
they have been harder proposition. There
never has been any other bucking in the world
like the hucknG of the lower Rio Grande mus
tang and there never will he again The cow
hov able to stay on one OF them was hailed as
easily chief when he went north into Wyoming
and Montana. Tho cayuse. which is the North
western wild horse is small potatoes. anyhow.
when compared with his Southern brother Of
semi Spanish or entirely Spanish extraction.
The two leading buckers now owned by w. +.
Codv--Jubilee and Dynamito-are both Of this
breed Dynamite is black mare of half
Spanish blood. and Jubilee. one Of the most
vicious horses that ever went under a saddle.
comes from Chihuahua. in Mexico.
Thirty years ago there were 100000 mus
tangs in Texas. Even fifteen years ago they
were plentiful enough. From that tine until
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