Approximately how long have there been horses in North America?

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Thank you for any and all answers.

Answer 1

The early forms of horses mesohippus and others accually origanted in North America, when the continets divided the horse went across the land bridge and where extint in America until the Spainards brought them back. Hope that helps!

Answer 2

About 500 years,

Horses where here in North America more than 50 million years ago, a small fox-sized animal crept through the forests of North America, browsing on fruit and leaves. Its arched-back body was only about a foot high at the shoulder, and a long tail and short-snouted head probably gave it a distinctly dog-like look. In fact, its feet sported pads like a dog's, except each toe ended in a tiny hoof instead of a claw. Interestingly, in modern horses, one toe has become the hoof, and the others remain as vestigial bumps higher up the leg. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/horses/what.html

The Spanish reintroduced the horse to North America in the 1500’s.
http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/Spring%2005%20projects/Wildhorses/Wildhorses.htm



One of the earliest written records of this horse in North America is the 1801-2 winter count of the Sioux nation, depicting that year as when the Sioux stole Curly Horses from the Crow people. Later, in drawings by Red Horse, Curly Horses are pictured in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, being ridden by Sioux Warriors.
http://www.curlyhorses.com/curlies.html

From cave paintings it is believed that the equid from which modern horses are derived resemble the modern Przewalski Horse. The large strong heads and erect manes depicted in these paintings bear a striking resemblance to this modern breed.
The first domestication of the horses was probably in the steppes of central Asia between 3000 and 4000 B.C. These first animals were kept for meat and milk. As early man became more mobile undoubtedly horses began to be used as pack animals.
Oxen were being used in the Middle East at approximately 4000 B.C. for plowing. Progressively they were used on sleds, which were eventually mounted on rollers, with the final evolution of wheels. Early in the 3rd millennium B.C. there is archeological evidence that vehicles drawn by equid, generally onagers or *** hybrids, were being used in warfare. As horses from the north became more numerous the carts moved to the familiar two-wheeled chariot with spoked wheels. Due to his greater speed the horse rapidly replaced other equid as harness animals.
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/horses/

Answer 3

They have been here since dinosaurs. 50 million years ago just look it up at the library or in a book i have studied horses for awhile and i know for a fact that is right.

Answer 4

The first horse was the hyracotherium, it roamed about 50 million years ago and was the size of a fox. over millions of years it became what it is today.

Answer 5

I know that they were brought with the columbian exchange (the exchange of goods across the ocean after columbus landed). I would guess with the conquistidors, early 1500's. I know they had them when they took over the aztecs.

Answer 6

Three or four hundred years when the Spanish brought them over.