Link to Youtube video of Corolla horses Here’s a one-minute look at the Corolla horses on the NC coast. This herd shares genetic links to colonial Spanish horses. Take a tour with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund. To learn more about “Banker” horses, read Bonnie U. Gruenberg’s remarkable book The Wild Horse Dilemma: Conflicts and Controversies of the East Coast Herds Quagga Press, 2015.
June 15, 2016
Corolla horses video, Outer Banks, North Carolina
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Prof. Rich Slatta has taught history at NC State since 1980. In July 2016 he semi-retired and now teaches HI 216 online. He specializes in modern Latin America and comparative ranching frontiers of the Americas. Slatta also directed the university's First Year Inquiry program from 2009 to 2016. He has published 10 books, including Cowboys of the Americas, Comparing Cowboys and Frontiers, The Mythical West, The Cowboy Encyclopedia, Cowboy: The Illustrated History, Latin America: An Interactive History Lab (online book), Bandidos, Simon Bolivar's Quest for Glory, and Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier.
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Early domestication of the horse
April 28, 2017
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Horse Jaw pushes date of humans in North America back 10,000 years
March 20, 2017
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45,000 Wild Horses To Be Killed By The U.S. Government BLM
September 12, 2016
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CORRAL Riding Academy in Cary, North Carolina
July 11, 2016
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Horses on the job in Victoria, BC
June 27, 2016
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