March - Moon When The Ponies Shed

Horses that escaped from the Spanish in Central America and Mexico drifted northward. They reached Northern Texas around 1600, the Northern Plains by the early to mid 1700's and Canada around 1770.

Native Americans quickly moved from working dogs pulling travois to horses. The native American glory days of the 1800's were because of the European horse and the European firearm.

Horse soldiers complained that Indian ponies weren't necessarily faster but ran much further leaving exhausted, overloaded Army horses in the dust.