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A feral horse that out-stubborned colonization and a Ford named after it won the drag race.
means A wild or feral horse of the American West, descended from horses brought by Spanish colonizers and gone free.
from From Spanish 'mestengo,' meaning a stray or ownerless animal, itself rooted in 'mesta,' the association of sheep and livestock owners in medieval Spain who dealt with stray stock. Spanish horses that escaped or were turned loose on the plains bred wild, and English speakers borrowed and reshaped the word into 'mustang' to name these free-roaming herds.
- name origin
- From Spanish mesteno, meaning ownerless stray animal
- ancestry
- Descended from horses the Spanish brought in 1500s
- legal status
- Federally protected since 1971 as living symbol of freedom
- ford hijack
- 1964 car stole the name, kept the wildness