Many historians link the revolt with the first spread of horses beyond the Southwest, because with the Spanish gone, so was their control over their livestock at colonial settlements. Ancestral ...

analyzed more than 10,000 horses from 200 free-roaming horse populations in the Southwest. Only 3 to 5% descend from colonial Spanish horses, his research found. Cothran concedes that Arizona’s ...

And intriguingly, a recent DNA analysis suggests that the modern breed this Spanish colonial horse is most closely related to is none other than the Chincoteague pony. Given the genetic similarity ...

researchers have sequenced the mitochondrial genome of a sixteenth-century horse using DNA extracted from a tooth discovered at the Spanish colonial site of Puerto Real in what is now Haiti.

shedding light on the origins and spread of American domestic horses. The specimen is a tooth fragment, originally misidentified as cow, from the Spanish colonial site of Puerto Real in what is ...

The 1947 children’s novel Misty of Chincoteague opens with a dramatic account of a small herd of horses escaping from the wreck of a colonial-era Spanish galleon. According to local folk stories ...

The animal is one of around 60 Santa Cruz Island horses that are descended from the Spanish colonial horses first brought to the island off the coast of Santa Barbara in the 1830s. After 160 years ...

Colonists imported Spanish horses from southern Europe to help herd ... Evidence of shipwrecks, including several colonial-age vessels, often wash ashore during winter storms.

It’s taken a lot of time, a lot of work.” There’s a rich history behind the American Quarter Horse. “The Colonial Spanish Horse was brought to America in the 1500s by the Spanish ...