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  2. Nueces Strip - Wikipedia

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    The Nueces Strip or Wild Horse Desert is the area of South Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. [1]According to the narrative of Spanish missionary Juan Agustín Morfi, there were so many wild horses swarming in the Nueces Strip in 1777 "that their trails make the country, utterly uninhabited by people, look as if it were the most populated in the world".

  3. Gregorio Cortez - Wikipedia

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    Gregorio managed to elude hundreds of men in parties of up to three hundred by riding four hundred miles on mares and walking at least 120 miles along the Mexico-Texas border before ultimately being captured on June 22. [15] From June 15 to June 25, 1901, the story was front-page news of the San Antonio Express.

  4. Operation Lone Star - Wikipedia

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    In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.

  5. Trail riding - Wikipedia

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    A bridle path, also called a bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, bridle road, or horse trail, is a trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses, though such trails often now serve a wider range of users, including equestrians, hikers, [1] and cyclists. Such paths are either impassable for motorized vehicles, or ...

  6. Movie ranch - Wikipedia

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    Spahn added more sets and rental horses, making it a popular location for horseback riding among locals. [57] This continued to be the location for various B movie and TV series film until the late 1960s. [58] [59] As the western genre became less popular, however, the ranch became almost deserted.

  7. 2021 Haitian migrant whip controversy - Wikipedia

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    In September 2021, an incident occurred involving migrants from Haiti crossing into the United States at the Del Rio, Texas, sector of the Mexico–US border.President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris claimed the migrants were being whipped by horse-mounted US Border Patrol agents.

  8. Long-distance horse riding - Wikipedia

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    There are two main types of long-distance riding, competitive trail riding and endurance rides. In an endurance ride, discussed in this article, the winning horse is the first one to cross the finish line while stopping periodically to pass a veterinary check that deems the animal in good health and fit to continue. As with human marathon ...

  9. Equestrianism - Wikipedia

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    Musicians riding horses, Tang dynasty Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes, such as in police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch.They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this ...