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This website is owned and created by Nancy Kerson, a private citizen. Information about BLM adoptions is offered as a service, to help mustangs find homes and to promote public appreciation of wild horses and burros.
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VIDEOS OF INTEREST TO MUSTANG & BURRO ADOPTERS:
Kitty Lauman:
From Wild to Willing: Using the Bamboo Pole to Gentle Mustangs
More from Lauman Training available now!DVD or VHS
(2-DVD or 2-VHS set) almost 3 hours of instruction! $49.95 plus $5 shipping/handling = $54.95 total 
Lesley Neuman:
The First Touch
Gentling Your Mustang
$45.00
Lesley works with 3 wild horses at a BLM adoption, and very clearly explains what is happening, what she is doing, & what she sees in each horse as it progresses. Study this video and you can learn "pressure and release" gentling techniques to gentle your own new mustang! 
Help for Burro adopters!
Crystal Ward
Donkey Training
All the basics of gentling, handling, and training. A MUST for new burro adopters! Good for domestic donkeys, too! Can't do Paypal?
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| | | US Forest Service Wild Horse Territories | ELKO Field Office Herd Management Areas (#100's) |  | Rockn Red Ranch Lakeside Loko with owner Joe Horine age 3 gelding from Elko area #02580167 Adopted and trained by Megan and Scott Robertson. This is my first horse and we have learned a lot together. He has been such a pleasure and blessing I have acquired another Mustang to work with as well..... - Joe Horine |  | Kumi and his adopter, Pam Stoddard, winning Costume class at the Reno Wild Horse & Burro Expo in 2005. Kumi is from one of "The Diamonds" (Diamond Hills, Diamond Hills North, or Diamond Hills South) though I'm not sure which one. Kumi was adopted by Pam the day after the 2004 Expo, so that is pretty impressive progress! |
The ELKO BLM Field Office District includes the following Herd Management Areas (Listed In Numerical Order):
Samson, adopted by Mitzi Nevin, trained by Ryan Coaxum
For Samson's story, click HERE (Note that Little Owyhee NV200 shares a very long border with Owyhee, which the horses no doubt cross, but is administered by the Winnemucca District) | 
Salem from Owyhee, adopted by the Wilder family from North Carolina.5 Year old grey gelding, from Owyhee, NV. He is 14.3 hands tall. Salem is sweet and loving, extremely gentle, and adores being around people. Big boned and strong, he has been used as a trail riding horse at the stable I board him at. He was adopted in Cross Plains as a 2 year old. 
Historical photo from Nevada Dept. of Cultural Affairs: Early 1900's Western Shoshone Vaqueros at Owyhee
|  | Ryan Coaxum riding Samson from Owyhee (Elko District), adopted by Mitzi Nevin | 
Tickle from Owyhee, adopted by Suzette
Tickle is bay roan sabino in coloring |
This is "Nevada" from the Owyhee Area. He is great, sometimes I think he acts more like a dog instead of a horse. Best trail horse and buddy I have ever ridden. - Nevada & Louise Mathis N.C. |  |  |  | 
Dineen Wold & Owyhee Tigger at the 2006 Tevis Cup Endurance Race |  | |  | 
Internet Adoption horse from Little Hunboldt |  |  |  | 
ROCK CREEK mares available at Palomino Valley. Call Mike Meyers at Palomino Valley for information:
775-223-9046 | 
Faith from Rock Creek
3-year-old mare adopted September 2004 by Angie. |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | 
Sherman from
Diamond Hills North
Diamond Hills mare available at Palomino Valley. Call Mike Meyers at Palomino Valley for information:
775-223-9046
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1300 lb mustang from Diamond Hills rescued by Kris Peterson
"Blue is a little off the scale. He's right at 16 hands, roughly 1300 pounds, has feet like dinner plates. He's a dark chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail. His forelock hangs most of the way down his face and his tail nearly drags the ground. And he was this wonderful Roman nose."
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from Diamond Hills NorthRescued from the auction as a 10-year-old by Raymond Brown of Marin County, CA Henry is solid, sound, "dead broke," kind and sweet - Ray reports he is just astounded that such a fine, well-trained animal would end up at the auction! Thankfully, Ray saved Henry, and Henry is now much loved and enjoying the Good Life! | Maverick-Medicine NV105
Maverick-Medicine HMA horses at Palomino Valley, July 14, 2006
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Smoke, from Maverick-Medicine HMA, adopted by Carter Roberts.
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Smoke, from Maverick-Medicine HMA, adopted by Carter Roberts. | Maverick-Medicine was gathered in July, 2006. I was lucky enough to happen to be visiting Palomino Valley BLM Center when two loads were delivered. I was very favorably impressed by these horses - good temperaments and excellent conformation.
The big "M" painted on their butts identifies these pretty young studs as Maverick Medicine | 
Beautiful red (above) and bay (below) duns
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Newly-arrived Maverick-Medicine horses (you can see the delivery trucks in the background) |  | 
This little sleepy-head slept through the arrival of new horses |  | 
|  | | Yearling gelding Lakota's Shaman in born at Palomino Valley adopted July 2007 - dam is from Maverick Medicine herd captured fall 2006 . Adopted by AJ Sutton, Lawndale, CA |  | | 5-year-old Maverick-Medicine stud horse being halter-trained by BLM volunteer, Michael & Nancy Kerson |  | 
Trainer Steve Smith's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Ashley Stevenson's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Phil Neubauer's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Jimmie Thomas's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Brenda Webb's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Jean Morehouse's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Lonnie Aragon's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | 
Trainer Patrick Brunson's 2007 Extreme Makeover horse | | | (no longer managed as a separate HMA: divided between Antelope Valley & Maverick Medicine) |  
Benny from CherryCreek, Buck & Bald Complex (Saanen Kerson, adopter) | 
Thea
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7-year-old Aspin riding Tar Baby
Tar Baby from Goshute, adopted by Billie Pitcher.
Tar Baby was adopted as a 3 year old stallion at a satellite adoption in Casper, brought to my place, and within a week, on a bet/dare from our husbands, Billie got up on him bareback, he was so relaxed and easy
going, that we went ahead and saddled him, she got back on, and I ponied him off Metawa, when he got mad, the only thing this stallion did was stomp his foot! It was so funny! Just like a kid not wanting to do something, just stomped that foot... LOL! She had him gelded about a month later.
Everyone swore that this mustang had to have been previously handled, but we all knew he hadn't been :) If all Goshute mustangs are as easy as Tar Baby was, adopters
are in for a real treat!
- Lona Patton |  
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Goshute Buttercup, adopted by Amy Dumas | Buttercup is listed as a palomino, which she obviously no longer is! Perhaps as a foal... She has amber eyes and unique diluted coat coloring - most likely she is a champagne
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Sherpa, adopted by James Smith
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Sundance Kid -adopted by Laura Powers | NV110 Toano
(zeroed out October 1993) | |  since July 30, 2007
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