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but were ambushed and killed after they attempted to sell back horses to the brother of a horse trader they had stolen from. While stealing horses, and driving them away from pursuing emigrants, horses escaped, and the outlaws couldn’t risk going back for them.

Native Americans also played a large part in the introduction of horses in Southwest Wyoming. The Colorado/Wyoming/Utah borders was also the border to the Shoshone Territory to the North, and the Ute Territory to the South. The Ute Indians measured their wealth and power in the number of horses they accumulated, and the Ute horse raids during the 1800’s is well documented. A recent archaeological study* at the Powder Rim area, on the Wyoming/

Draft and Curly Among the Lineage

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*Source: James D. Keyser and George Poetschat; "Ute Horse Raiders on

the Powder Rim: Rock Art at Powder Wash, Wyoming"