When black horses fly and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.
A trip worth taking.
Just 30 miles east out of Tonopah, Nevada, you can find wild horses in the Stone Cabin and Saulsbury HMAs (where we are making a stand in the court to defend them).
You can stay in town at one of the “haunted motels.” At the Mizapah you might see the Lady in Red walking the halls. If you are really brave you can stay at the Clown Motel and Graveyard for both an historic and “frightful” night.
Picking a haunted halloween eve is pretty easy in a state like Nevada. Just visit “Travel Nevada” and search “haunted.” The state is filled with so many ghosts!
Fun Fact: Ghost towns
There are 3,800 ghost towns across the country, most of them in the West. When travelling in wild horse country it is not uncommon to come across old homesteads. If you plan your trip, you could travel down lonely old roads that once saw thousands of people heading to town. Towns that can be “spooktacular.” (You can search for ghost towns by state HERE)
One of the old stone houses you can find in wild horse territory.
October 31, is also the Nevada Statehood Anniversary
Nevada, the state with the most wild horses in the U.S., was granted statehood on October 31,1864, after telegraphing the Constitution of Nevada to the United States Congress just days before the presidential election (the largest and costliest transmission ever by telegraph). The Nevada Constitution explicitly said that the state wouldn’t claim any public land that wasn’t spoken for. This left the vast majority of Nevada’s land in the public estate, managed by the federal government; only Alaska has more public lands.
Nevada was one of two states granted statehood during the Civil War; the state’s immense mineral wealth helped foot the bill of the Union at a critical time. Nicknamed the “Silver State”, Nevada is actually the largest gold-producing state in the U.S. and fourth-largest in the world. America’s largest silver deposit, the Comstock Lode, was found in Nevada in 1859.
Wild horses are so important to the image of the state that they appear on the quarter,
It is so sad that the state spends so much time doing mass removals that are pushing the populations down into fragments and setting them up to disappear.
There are more wild horses and burros in the state of NV (because of all the public lands) than all others combined.
Today there are 83 Herd Management Areas (HMA) on Nevada’s vast public lands for wild horses and burros. Mining and energy remain one of the biggest uses of public lands in the state that encroach and fragment the land our wild horses and burros occupy.
Our wild horses and burros face many threats today.
Sometimes the truth can be the scariest of all.
But together, we can be a strong force to fight back and bring back the light.
Happy Halloween.
This October, your generosity can go twice as far. A generous donor has issued a matching challenge—every contribution this month will be doubled, dollar for dollar. We’ve reached edged beyond the halfway mark, but we must meet our full goal by month’s end to continue this critical work.
Please help us reach this vital matching goal and continue our mission of preservation.
Your support fuels every mile, every courtroom battle, every victory for the wild.
WHE stands strong. Together, we stand for them.
We will never back down.
Through October 31, we have relaunched the classic “Freedom and Justice” shirts. You can order one HERE. As a bonus to WHE, all funds raised through the sale of shirts will be matched in our match challenge!
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