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It's a link to a time when horses running free wasn't such a novelty, so much as the norm. We've had the pleasure of seeing this only a few times in the four years

we've been traveling full-time once when hiking through the Glen Canyon National Recreation

area in Arizona and the second and most astonishing when a family of wild horses came right into our

campsite when we were camping at Fletcher View campground in the Spring Mountains outside

of Las Vegas.

It was nothing short of amazing. I'm Jason Epperson and today on

America's National Parks one of the best places to find wild horses, a place where they have an island

all to their own. Assateague Island National Seashore. There are about 60,000 free-roaming horses in North America, and while we call them wild, they might more accurately fit the definition of feral, which means they're free-roaming descendants of domesticated horses.

Regardless, their majesty is impressive to behold anywhere you find them.

Domestic horses were introduced into North America beginning with the Spanish conquest.

Escaped horses then spread throughout the Great Plains.

But it's clear that centuries of domestication didn't alter their instincts too much as they

quickly reverted to ancient behavioral patterns in the wild.

The horses at Assatee are split into two main herds,

one on the Virginia side of the island

and the other on the Maryland side.

They're separated by a fence at the Virginia Maryland state line.

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