Idaho Matters

Mustang: The relationship between ranchers and wild horses

As the Mustang series comes to an end, host Ashley Ahearn looks at the complicated relationship between ranchers and wild horses and meets an indigenous woman working to save reservation horses from being sold for slaughter.

Broadcast on:: 18 Dec 2023

Host Ashley Ahearn riding her mare, Pistol, and leading her three-year-old mustang, Boo, in the mountains of Washington.( Ashley Ahearn)

As the Mustang podcast series comes to an end, host Ashley Ahearn looks at the complicated relationship between ranchers and wild horses and meets an Indigenous woman working to save reservation horses from being sold for slaughter.

This series for the Mountain West News Bureau is adapted from the podcast.