no BARBARIANS 



men on very much larger horses. The}^ some- 

 times intercepted Indians on the march, but 

 rarely overtook them. Closel}^ pursued, Chief 

 Joseph commanding the Nez Perce tribe, 

 marched with his women and children 

 fourteen hundred miles, before the United 

 States forces succeeded in intercepting their 

 flight. In the case of the Blackfoot out- 

 law Charcoal, up to a hundred-and-sixty 

 Mounted Police were engaged for four 

 months catching him. So on the whole the 

 primitive savage, once he had a pony, was not 

 deficient in mobihty. And given the pony, 

 he became the Mounted Barbarian whose 

 Hordes pla3'ed havoc with the elder civihza- 

 tions. At the very dawn of Histor}^ three 

 hundred thousand head of Turanean chariotry 

 romped down on the Persian Empire. They 

 are said to have been very haughty and op- 

 pressive to the poor Persians. 



The fact that range men travelling are 

 usually attended by a herd, change ponies at 

 every halt, and so ride fresh mounts two or 

 three times a day, gives them a mobilit}^ with 

 even the smallest ponies which has never been 

 matched b}^ one-horse cavalry. It was not the 

 foray, but shock action which had to wait, until 

 the crossing of stocks produced the war horse. 



