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Mustang: The relationship between ranchers and wild horses

Host Ashley Ahearn riding her mare, Pistol, and leading her three-year-old mustang, Boo, in the mountains of Washington.
Ashley Ahearn
Host Ashley Ahearn riding her mare, Pistol, and leading her three-year-old mustang, Boo, in the mountains of Washington.

As the Mustang podcast series comes to an end, host Ashley Ahearn looks at the complicated relationship between ranchers and wild horses and meets an Indigenous woman working to save reservation horses from being sold for slaughter.

This series for the Mountain West News Bureau is adapted from the podcast.

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