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2023-04-07 06:38:25 UTC - HELPFUL
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What recent research shows is that the domesticated horse spread through the American West in the first half of the 1600s. Indigenous peoples introduced them via trade networks coming up from area of Mexico. These horses had mainly Spanish ancestry https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/
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