History, Page 11 Sometimes people ran the horses down these narrow roads until they were close enough to be roped out of the windows or until they dropped from exhaustion. Many of these animals became legends, for their anecdotal lives, the vicious cruelty visited on them, and their tragic ends. A tragedy involving the death of a young child who tried to ride a tamed horse while unattended resulted in a wholesale slaughter.

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