Wild horses shot with arrows. State Officials Investigate Wild Horse Killings
LYON COUNTY, CA - Some called him "Railroad Man" or "Flash." The crews and passengers on the V&T Railroad who saw the paint stallion leading his band near American Flat almost every trip called him "Damien." By whatever name he had many fans. In fact he starred in many tourists' memories and videos of their trip to the Comstock.
"Probably the greatest photo op was when he took his band and he ran alongside the train for a full mile at the same pace as the train. It was wonderful."
Today, the big stallion is a rotting carcass, not far from a Mound House neighborhood, shot and killed a couple of weeks ago. Then yesterday another wild stallion, a bay called "Noman was found on a nearby hillside.
"He had been shot with arrows," says Bob Conrad of the Department of Agriculture, "and he was near death when we arrived on scene. We had to euthanize him"
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