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===Westward expansion=== In the 19th century, pioneers heading West needed a hardy, willing horse. On the [[Great Plains]], settlers encountered horses that descended from the Spanish stock [[Hernán Cortés]] and other Conquistadors had introduced into the viceroyalty of [[New Spain]], which became the Southwestern United States and Mexico. The horses of the West included herds of [[feral]] animals known as [[Mustang (horse)|Mustangs]], as well as horses domesticated by [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]], including the [[Comanche]], [[Shoshoni]] and [[Nez Perce (tribe)|Nez Perce]] tribes.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Moulton | editor-first = Gary E. | year = 2003 | title = The Lewis and Clark Journals | url = https://archive.org/details/lewisclarkjourna00meri | url-access = registration | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | location = Lincoln, Nebraska | isbn = 978-0-8032-8039-7}}</ref><ref>Murphy, Robert F., and Yolanda Murphy. Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society. Good Press, 2019. </ref> As the colonial Quarter Horse was crossed with these western horses, the pioneers found that the new crossbred had innate "cow sense", a natural instinct for working with cattle, making it popular with cattlemen on [[ranch]]es.<ref name=Colonial193>Mackay-Smith ''Colonial Quarter Race Horse'' p. 193</ref>
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