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Nokota Horse
2007 Benefit Model Limited Edition |
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breed: Nokota |
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color: Blue Roan |
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recommended age: 8 and Up |
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$ 50.00
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description:
The Nokota horse is a rare breed
descended from wild horses that roamed the Little Missouri
badlands in southwestern North Dakota for more than 100 years.
Descended from early ranch and Indian horses, including horses
the U.S. Army confiscated from Sitting Bull\'s people after they
surrendered in 1881, the wild horses were accidentally enclosed
within the boundaries of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the
late 1940s. When the badlands herds were removed from the park
and sold in the 1980s, brothers Frank and Leo Kuntz of Linton,
North Dakota, purchased many of them. Together with Castle
McLaughlin, a graduate student and park ranger who researched
the history of the horses, they developed the Nokota name and
breed registry. The Nokota Horse Conservancy was founded in 1999
to preserve and protect this unique and historic mustang strain.
Now, you can help this Honorary State Equine of North Dakota. A
portion of the proceeds of Breyer’s 2007 Benefit Model will be
donated to the Nokota Horse Conservancy for the purchase of
land, feed, water and shelter.
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