It is one of the most beautiful and untrammeled places in America, where mountain and high desert meet, and wild mustangs still roam. The spirit of the Wild West echoes across this landscape, and if you listen hard enough, you can almost hear the sound of long-gone hoofbeats, the echo[Read More…]
Tag: Wild Mustangs
When wild horses heal
It’s 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Mesa County Fairgrounds in a covered, but open-sided arena where a brisk, teasing breeze can capture a touch of winter and blow through. Mustangs gathered in July and August from northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin, mostly blacks, bays and sorrels, chew on hay in a[Read More…]
Romance versus reality
Range report Sunday, April 11, 2022. Started out in Barcus Creek, road very dry and dusty, several spots were deep mud ruts that had dried. Yellow Creek where it crosses 88 is very low. I saw about 40 horses in the Barcus area. The windmill tank is overflowing making a[Read More…]
2020 Meeker Mustang Makeover enjoys record success in tough year
Started by a group of Meeker citizens just one year ago, this year’s Meeker Mustang Makeover more than doubled in size from last year, adding more horses overall, and a youth division with five yearling wild horses. Each youth participant who satisfied the obstacles received an $800 scholarship check. Helping[Read More…]
Getting ready for the second annual Meeker Mustang Makeover
RBC | Some very lucky wild mustangs were picked up yesterday for the Meeker Mustang Makeover (MMM) competition. This is the second year for the event. The purpose, according to MMM’s website, is “to showcase the horses of the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area and to to help prepare mustangs for adoption and[Read More…]
‘100 days from wild to mild’–30 days left in Meeker Mustang Makeover challenge
MEEKER | With roughly 30 days to go before six Colorado born mustangs compete to win big prize money at the first ever Meeker Mustang Makeover, their Colorado horse trainers are busy exposing their horses to the wide world. Meeker local Joe Wood’s small mustang, named “Flintstone” by his two[Read More…]