History of Horses in the American West Examined

BOULDER, COLORADO — According to a statement released by the University of Colorado Boulder, Native American groups living as far north as what are now Wyoming and Idaho may have been raising and riding horses by the early seventeenth century. In contrast, European records indicate that Native Americans began caring for horses after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, when Pueblo people living in what is now New Mexico released Spanish livestock as part of their temporary overthrew of Spanish rule. An international team of researchers, including William Taylor of the CU Museum of Natural History; geneticist Ludovic Orlando and Lakota…