April Quote by Edward Burnett Tylor

Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

— Winston Churchill

Horses were a way to travel to get to where we are today, and it is our job to protect them.

— Willie Nelson

“The column was halted for a rest, and a number of officers, myself among them, rode out two or three miles to the right…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The agricultural fields throughout the Southwest, those jobs needed to be filled, and who were the ones to do it? It was the Mexicans.

— Richard Cabral

For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

— Viggo Mortensen

“There were no horses in America until the Europeans brought them in 1492. American Indians riding horses is not “authentic.” It is globalized and modern.”

— FastReads

“They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but before they were even quite out of sight of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The…

— Howard Zinn

“distance and found no smoke. We drank our coffee and ate fresh venison killed by Short Bull, and then we straddled our horses and…

— Louis L'Amour

“I returning South on horseback, by Rome, Allatoona, Marietta, Atlanta, and Madison, Georgia. Stockton stopped at Marietta, where he resided. Hammond took the cars…

— William T. Sherman

“On October 1, 1838, the first detachment set out in what was to be known as the Trail of Tears. As they moved westward,…

— Howard Zinn

We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were…

— John Landgraf