How did Mustang horses get to America?

Answer 1

The only wild horses in the world are found in Mongolia and known as "Przewalski's Horse" - a name from a Russian general who described them to the west in the nineteenth century.

In the US, there are feral horses known as "Mustangs" - they live independently of man but are not "wild" - they escaped from captivity after many, many centuries of domestication and thus are no longer "wild" animals, but rather "feral." The name is an Anglo corruption of the Spanish word "misteno" which means "stray animal" or "feral animal."

Answer 2

Originally, horses are technically native to the Americas. But after the last ice age (When the Bering land bridge1 disappeared under the water) they died out in America. When the European explorers began to arrive (especially the Conquistadors2), they brought horses with them. They lost or freed many of these,3 and these horses eventually formed herds. Over many generations of natural selection these horses evolved the qualities we consider to be mustang, intelligence, a sturdy but lean build, and a sense of freedom, independence, and often loyalty that is rarely seen in other breeds.

Mustangs are a mutt breed. The basic lineage includes everything from Arabian to some draft blood. In turn, the Appaloosa, Quarter Horse, and many other breeds are descended from mustangs.

1) The Bering land bridge (or Bering Strait Land Bridge), connected Siberia to Alaska during the last ice age. Many creatures (including the races of humans now known as Native Americans) were introduced to the Americas this way. As the ice melted the oceans rose and the land bridge disappeared.

2) The conquistadors were Spanish explorers who travelled to America (primarily Central and South) in search of wealth and glory. They were the largest of the groups to first explore.

3) Many explorers freed horses to not have to care for them, to make room on ships for gold and silver, or for other reasons. I do not believe the population of the Americas with wild horses was a forefront cause.

Answer 3

Horses are not native to North America - they were brought over the ocean by European explorers, conquerors and settlers. Most of the mustangs in the American West are descended from Spanish horses that escaped from the conquistadors while they were pillaging their way through Central America; the ponies off the coast of North Carolina are descended from horses originally brought to the US by English settlers of the colonies.

Answer 4

They were brought when the conquistadors came to the US from Spain.

Answer 5

they came from the spanish people when they 1st came to the US i think because chesnut isn't a breed its a color of horse

Answer 6

The Spanish explorers brought horses to North America beginning in the 1500's.

Answer 7

The Spanish when Columbus found America.