Wild Horse Annie

In 1950, a Nevada woman noticed blood dripping from a truck ahead of her and she followed it. What Velma Johnston found horrified her. Wild horses, many of them injured, had been packed into the truck and hauled to a shipping yard where they would be sent to a pet food factory.

This was legal. Hunters known as "mustanger’s" were licensed by the Bureau of Land Management to rid the range of mustangs. The horses were captured for slaughter, poisoned or just gunned down as the panicked animals were hunted by plane or truck.

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