Note 1 — Front matter

Forty thousand, even thirty thousand, mustangs are a lot of mustangs. In The Young Explorers, a book privately printed in Austin, Texas, about 1892, Duval, pp. 111-112, defends this extraordinary assertion. The wild horses were encountered between the Nueces River and the Río Grande. Corroborative of the enormous numbers to be found in that region is the testimony of William A. McClintock, “Journal of a Trip Through Texas and Northern Mexico,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. XXXIV, pp. 232-233. Bigfoot Wallace was not lying about the wild horses.