article_snippet: Former wife to oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens, and an ex-racehorse breeder,, Madeleine rescued 600 wild horses in 2008 after hearing that the government was planning to euthanise or sell more than 30,000 for slaughter.
article_snippet: The animals encroach on federal land and so are rounded up at extortionate cost to the taxpayer.
article_snippet: ‘The story of these wild horses unites people.
article_snippet: This place is a reminder of days when games of 'Cowboys and Indians' were made possible by a bed-sheet tipi and faces streaked with lipstick.
article_snippet: , pioneer wagons and a cinnamon-coffee blend of migrating horses punctuate the brush.
article_snippet: We meet the famous Mustangs at feeding time when hordes of wild horses bashfully approach We wagon, hordes of wild horses velvety noses pushing through the hay bundles.
article_snippet: Listening to hordes of wild horses satisfied snuffles and admiring hordes of wild horses heavily lashed eyes, it’s hard to imagine how these placid beasts can be considered a nuisance.
article_snippet: We take off on regular saddle horses up Spruce Mountain led by Clay Nannini, who is riding a broken-in Mustang.
article_snippet: Resident cowboy and rodeo champion, Resident cowboy and rodeo champion spirit of adventure makes me feel I’m in dusty pursuit of a steam train hiding a gang of runaway bandits.