no BARBARIANS 



men on very much larger horses. They some- 

 times intercepted Indians on the march, but 

 rarely overtook them. Closely pursued, Chief 

 Joseph commanding the Nez Perc^ 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 mobility. And given the pony, 

 he became the Mounted Barbarian whose 

 Hordes played havoc with the elder civiliza- 

 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 mobility with 

 even the smallest ponies which has never been 

 matched by one-horse cavalry. It was not the 

 foray, but shock action which had to wait, until 

 the crossing of stocks produced the war horse. 



