Many of them were Arabian horses of purest blood.

American explorers and travelers, at the outset of the nineteenth century, encountered countless droves of wild horses all over the plains.

Across the Grand Canyon, however, wild horses were comparatively few in number in the early days; and these had probably come in by way of California.
The Stewarts and Slone had no established mode of catching wild horses.
The game had not developed fast enough for that.

Every chase of horse or drove was different; and once in many attempts they met with success.
A favorite method originated by the Stewarts was to find a water-hole frequented by the band of horses or the stallion wanted, and to build round this hole a corral with an opening for the horses to get in.

Then the hunters would watch the trap at night, and if the horses went in to drink, a gate was closed across the opening.