A Pale Horse

I once asked my junior high class what Indian ponies ate when the Montana snows were knee deep and winter lasted months.

Some said corn. One said horse feed.

Maybe they thought a store was just down river.

Horses were a sign of wealth, the more horses, the higher the owner's status. Actually the braves stripped large sheets of bark off cottonwood trees to feed their animals. Still the mortality rate was somewhere around 20%