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August ○ ○ Plight, continued from page 1. ○ ○ gate me up close. So, as the youngsters

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mustangs should no longer have a home ○ was accepted as part of the landscape
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DESK SCHEDULE ○ ○
here.
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About twelve years ago, the Bureau ○
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○ ○ dangers of having them feel too com-
Thur/1 G. Sayles C. Gilmore ○ of Land Management did a head count ○ fortable with humans, I tried hard not
○ ○ of the horses from a helicopter after a ○ ○
Fri/2 D./V. Wray J./H. Barrett ○ ○ to develop any friendships, but I would
number of them were found shot to be lying if I didn’t admit what a thrill it
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Sat/3 R.Conductor D./V. Wray ○ ○ death. When their accounting appeared ○
○ ○ was to have Prissy nicker at me in
Sun/4 M. Rosow C. Severn ○ ○ in an article in the Las Vegas Review ○ ○ greeting or to have Valentine run circles
Journal, which stated that the herd was ○
○ around me, unabashedly showing off as
Mon/5 M. Slagle R./W. Hetzler ○ ○
○ down to only nineteen horses, this ○ a teenager.
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Tues/6 F. Rhea R./M. Augulis ○ writer knew their figures were off. I ○ When I realized a couple of years
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had been taking pictures of them and ○ ago that we were gradually losing our
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Wed/7 D./V. Wray D. Powers ○ been keeping count every time I’d ride ○
○ ○ Red Rock mustangs—some to natural
Thur/8 G. Sayles J./H. Barrett ○ ○ my horse out there. I had pictures of ○ ○ predators, some to unknown factors,
forty-three since they’d done their fly- ○ and some to BLM roundups (they al-
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Fri/9 H. Perlman J. Geier ○ ○
over. I called BLM and told them I
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○ ways had a reason, they said)—I wrote
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Sat/10 G. Gabbert T. Phaendler ○ thought their num- ○ ○
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bers were wrong and ○
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Sun/11 B. Wolin S. Valladao ○ ○
why. They invited
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Mon/12 R. Zeitlin R. Hetzler ○ me down to their of-
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fices to prove it.
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Tues/13 F. Rhea C. Gilmore
When I produced de-
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Wed/14 D./V. Wray D./V. Wray ○ ○ cent photos that were
dated, along with my
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Thur/15 G. Sayles R. Zeitlin ○
good memory, they
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Fri/16 A. Berg R. Kinn ○ asked, “How’d you
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like to keep doing
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Sat/17 J. Kisosondie S. Kantrud ○
this for us?”
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Sun/18 B. Wolin M./L. Utah ○ So, over the years
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I have compiled a
Mon/19 R. Zeitlin J./H. Barrett ○
computerized list and a couple of scrap-
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○ a poem at the kitchen table one night
Tues/20 I. Grieco C. Gilmore ○ books as a record. Every horse was
○ and poured out my anguish at . . . okay
assigned a number with his picture
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Wed/21 E. Schliepp D. Powers ○ . . . losing my mustang friends. The first
beside it. If I couldn’t positively iden- ○ ○ lines read,
Thur/22 G. Sayles J./H. Barrett ○ tify a horse, I did not include him, but ○ ○ “Before too long the day will come
Fri/23 H. Perlman E. Schliepp ○ ○ most had a facial marking of some kind, ○ ○ when the horses will be gone.
or his ears flopped a certain way, so I ○ The canyons will stand silent,
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Sat/24 I. Grieco R. Kinn ○ ○ knew “who was who” pretty well. I ○ empty and alone.”
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Sun/25 P. VanDooremaal M./L. Utah ○ could tell you who his mama and his ○ Thankfully, with the help of a lot of
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daddy were—or at least the most likely ○ caring people willing to give sweat eq-
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Mon/26 M. Slagle J./H. Barrett ○ candidates—who were his brothers and ○
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Tues/27 F. Rhea J. Geier ○ sisters, his friends, where he liked to ○ a big contribution from El Niño, these
hang out, about any injuries, etc. ○
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○ ○ wild horses will always have a home in
Wed/28 I. Grieco J./H. Barrett ○ My husband said it was a hobby run ○
○ ○ Red Rock.
Thur/29 G. Sayles C. Gilmore ○ ○ amok and he was right, of course. But ○
○ what a labor of love. As the herds be- ○
Fri/30 A. Berg E. Schliepp ○ ○
○ came accustomed to me and my ○ Mary Sue Kunz is a member of NWHA and
Sat/31 D./V. Wray D./V. Wray ○ ○ appaloosa gelding, many of the horses ○ ○ graciously consented to write this article.
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realized I was no threat to them and got ○
○ ○ She has been monitoring the Red Rock herd
to where they’d let their foals investi- ○ for over twenty years.
Changes? Call Jim Cribbs (363-1922)