Includes bibliographical references and index.

The stone horse -- The Brittany Triangle: a wilderness under seige -- The charge of the black stallion band -- Thundering wild hooves on a moonlit night -- Ghost horses of winter -- 1988: The last (?) Chilcotin wild-horse bounty hunt -- Brittany Plateau: unique wild-horse ecosystem -- Canada's first wild-horse preserve -- The Xeni Gwet'in defend their homeland -- The wild-horse preserve burns -- The ancient relationship between wolves and wild horses -- Mountain lions, bears and wild horses -- Wild horses and starvation winters -- The buffalo bird that hitchhiked in with the horse -- Wild-horse communication -- The Chilcotin killing fields: 1860s-1988 -- The mustangers -- No room for wild horses -- Bloodlines: unravelling the origins of the Chilcotin wild horse -- Horse dreams and prophecies -- The first sixteen horses of conquest -- Shared Tsilhqot'in oral history on acquisition of the horse -- Explorers record Indigenous spread of the horse -- Ancient breeds form Chilcotin wild horse population -- Chilcotin horses' unique ancestry -- The East Russian (Yakut) horse connection -- The Canadian horse: (Le Cheval Canadien) -- The spread of the Spanish horse across America -- Lost Spanish conquistador expeditions to the BC Interior and Chilcotin -- Indigenous relationships to the late Pleistocene horse -- Horse evolution: in search of old bones -- Beringia: experiencing the birthplace of the Yukon horse -- Canada's last wild horses -- Recalibrating Canada's last wild horses.