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Updated: June 21, 2025

I regret to have to write that the possession of a horse is valued before that of a wife-and this has been the case for many years. "A horse," writes McKenzie, "is valued at ten guns, a woman is only worth one gun;" but at that time horses were scarcer than at present. Horses have been a late importation, comparatively speaking, into the Indian country.

Sir William Francis Butler - The Great Lone Land: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America