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TitleSaltwater Cowboys
Date(c. 1950)
DescriptionCHINCOTEAGUE’S WILD PONIES … Clam diggers, oystermen and fishermen turn cowboys once each year to roundup the ponies that run wild on Assateague Island which is on the Atlantic side of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The men, in boats and on horseback, make the ponies swim the 400-foot channel from Assateague to Chincoteague Island. There, in a famous summer event known as Pony Penning, the small, shaggy ponies are auctioned off. Sometimes as many as 100 are sold, and some bring $125. According to tradition, the ponies are descendants of Spanish horses that were shipwrecked off the coast hundreds of years ago. Another explanation is that they are offspring of ponies that strayed from Virginia plantations. A best-selling children’s book and a movie were based on the life of a pony named “Misty”.
Horses - Round-ups


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