Join Horseshoe this Artwalk and meet Nature & Landscape Photographer, Marlin Greene. Artist reception from 6:00-9:00.
Marlin will be featuring his most recent collection of photographs of the Kiger Mustangs. These beautiful mustangs are the oldest horses in North America--brought to our country over 400 years ago by the Spanish. Their story is as compelling as the images that Marlin has captured. Come pay witness to an American Legend.
Horseshoe will donate a percentage of Saturdays sales to the Kiger Mustang Refuge.
The story
of the Kiger Mustangs:
The band of twenty-seven horses discovered by the BLM(bureau of
land management) in the Beatys Butte wilderness of eastern Oregon in 1977 was
the last group to be found that are so true to type -- the last of the Spanish
"special forces horses" that had come to the Americas in the 1600s.
When the BLM moved the herd to two management areas -- Kiger Creek and Riddle
Mountain -- where they could be protected and developed, they insured
short-term that the Kigers would survive. Now there are precious few of these
unique, pure and top class examples of the Spanish origin horses left. There
are less than 200 in the wild in the BLM areas. Maybe twice that number that
are viable breeders, pure and top class, exist in captivity (excluding the
geldings). These horses are endangered by situation if not by government
designation.
Donations can be made to www.kigerrefuge.org
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