"The Mustangs: An American Story" takes audiences on an odyssey throughout America to places few people have seen or eve | dG1fU1NXRUMwYnVCcTA
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00:00The Mustang is the most American animal, strong, fast.
00:28He was the king of the plains.
00:31The ponies that the good guy rides are Mustangs.
00:35But the reality in the West was something really different.
00:39By 1970, it was at the brink of annihilation.
00:43Today, wild horses exist where we do not.
00:48In fact, after a century of decline, wild horse populations have been growing and growing.
00:57Right now, there's at least 80,000 wild horses living on public land and nearly 50,000 in
01:06government storage.
01:12We now have an icon of freedom who's become a ward of the state.
01:17And I thought that there must be an interesting story behind that.
01:21Go to the places where wild horses are to really try and find out where we came from,
01:26where we're going, and how we got to where we are today.
01:29They have all the ability in the world, but they don't have a voice.
01:35These horses literally, less than 120 days ago, never had human hands on them.
01:48His job is really going to be just to bond with some veterans and maybe show them what
01:53a cool horse and Mustang can be.
01:56If you bring your anger or you bring your bad day into it, they're going to respond
02:00to it.
02:01Mustangs can look into your soul.
02:04Thank you for giving me back my life.
02:14It's a little bit of our history still left to actually go out and see a wild horse running
02:20free.
02:22Yeah, we are a bunch of grandmas, and we are out darting.
02:26We have worked to lower the birth rate of the foals.
02:29By reducing their population growth, we aim to keep them free.
02:33Ha!
02:34You got her!
02:37It's freedom to know that all you have is where you stand.
02:45Mustangs are basically a living embodiment of the America that we want, and we've got
02:50to find a way to preserve it, because in doing so, we preserve ourselves and the land
02:55that we love.