Deseret Evening News | 1906-12-01 | Page 5 | Ancient Horses

k 4 HORSES At IL a recent meeting In Boston or of orthe the N Academy ot of Sciences some exhIbItions acre mallo malloA A t feature that general at attention was vas n a littie plaster cast tM tho primeval American horse tho From a descrIption tion In the tho Boston Doston Transcript of cit Nov 4 of et this model and ot of other species of tho equine genus Wo vo copy the thu lot tal lowing A pleasant house companion ono one would almost feel Lees Les than an dales tILlos size Ize It has clear markIngs or of tho horse In head anti bodY tall tull an anil logs legs n It lived In the tho wide VIoJo prairies ot of the tho Vest In tho ho Wind River ot of northern Wyoming A lIver II i the tho glades forced to seek by its 1111 and by Its comparative boon Incon Next can cam the tho pus lIght limbed and delicately built Again a I Western Yf rover found In vest ern Cr Nebraska and Ind In Dakota of horse hors like Ilko form but probably not In direct line of ancestry or of the tho true horse Next the tho roaming the same fields QI as did the tho choosing again I a forest life still nn an animal with toes the hard hoot hoof yet yOt unformed rIo Tho ancestor of t our native horse or of America the scotti was again n a esteri dud lie He wu as tho lie true truo lower ower horse or of America Just th the gIa 1111 cia cial period great grent bands ot of these theo wild roamed the land 1111 It had hod It a head extremely mely large 1 a promo profile limbS short abort bin quarters fee his and In bed proportion Chiefly ho lived upon the open san l or of Toy Tex its III and differed mot most In outward seem acorn hIll bug from our modern modem horse hOIse by lack of forelock mane and haIr ot of the upper part ot of the Iho tail 4 A horse was hown which Is It alive I 1 0 today This wild horle found In northern Asia In smaller bands bandA woo discovered In In one ot of lie Iho deserts of AsIa III lb Is III known as horse houe Is chiefly distInguished from the horse by upright manu mane of at forelock and long hair on en tho ho upper put part of at the tail lIe Is has hus a I large 1 with bumpy nn nod somewhat nose nac The Tho of at our good corn com companion panion lIeen In color In his former ronnel bald habl tat Int gave life lito to the tho old rocks which told n a Mory atory at the ancIent world orld