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Rex Booth
Pat,
Here's some interesting "Hoss History" on Spanish Steel Dust
There were no wild horses in the Americas when Columbus landed in 1492. In 1539 De Soto's explorers brought 237 horses to North America from Florida to Missouri.
As the people moved west they brought their horses with them. Many horses drove the cattle on this long trek. The people noticedSpanish Spanish Steel Dust horses could work with the cows and the Quarter Horse made another name for itself as the perfect cow pony.
 The first horse of Quarter type that attracted a great deal of attention in the Southwest was Steel Dust. He was a blood bay that stood 15 hands high and weighed approximately 1,200 pounds.The origins of Steel Dust span the South. He was foaled in Kentucky, in 1843.His sire was Harry Bluff, a son of Short Whip and a Thoroughbred mare named Big Nance, of Timoleon stock. Tomoleon was by Sir Archy.
Steel Dust was brought into Texas by Middleton Perry and Jones Greene in 1844.They settled down near the present site of Lancaster in what is now Dallas County. He soon had a reputation for speed and it is clear that the reputation of Steel Dust was such that a lot of Texans referred to his progeny as “Steel Dust Horses” and wanted and obtained colts that he had sired.
The popularity of Steel Dust as a running horse and as a sire of running horses and cow horses caused many horses that descended from him, or were of similar type, to be called “Steel Dust” horses. This name was quite common until the American Quarter Horse Association was established and the name Quarter Horse was officially adopted.
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