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War Horses From Okanogan

War Horses From Okanogan

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: In 1906 cowboys in the Ephrata area rounded up a few thousand wild horses and sold them to buyers back East in what was known as “The Last Grand Roundup.” At the time this event was considered a final farewell to the era of the Old West in Eastern Washington. But the day of the horse wasn’t quite over. Amazingly, horses were in so much…

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