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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mountains by Stewart Edward White: develop their self-reliance. They learn to think for
themselves.
To begin with two misconceptions, merely by way
of clearing the ground: the Western horse is generally
designated as a "bronco." The term is considered
synonymous of horse or pony. This is not so.
A horse is "bronco" when he is ugly or mean or
vicious or unbroken. So is a cow "bronco" in the
same condition, or a mule, or a burro. Again, from
certain Western illustrators and from a few samples,
our notion of the cow-pony has become that of a lean,
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