What are Mustang Horses?
Mustang horses are probably the most well known type of wild horse, particularly within the United States. Celebrated in American culture for their freedom and their courage, the Mustang is a breed of warm-blooded horses that live in the southwestern United States. Although horses were not originally native to North, Central, or South America, today’s Mustang horses descended from the domesticated warm-bloods brought to the New World by Spanish explorers. Whether some of these horses ran off, or were left behind as the Spanish came and went over the years, they lived and bred in the wild for centuries. The Mustang horses that we have today are the product of more than four centuries of isolation and breeding.
