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Horse Power: How Wild Mustangs Are Helping Veterans Return to Civilian Life

17 Nov Horse Power: How Wild Mustangs Are Helping Veterans Return to Civilian Life

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Fifty yards ahead, a pale light silhouetted a cowboy hat and a horse’s ears bobbing in a cloud of snow. With a string of mustangs lined out nose-to-tail in front of me, my only choice was to suck it up and follow. I could ignore my numb fingers and toes, the snow pelting my face, the wind gusting across the ridge at what must have been 50 miles per hour, cutting through my thin jacket and jeans, and the knowledge that the darkness to my right obscured 100-foot cliffs. I could ignore all of it if  I just focused on the bobbing ears. If there was one thing our herd-bound colts were good at, it was putting one hoof in front of the other and staying close.

 

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