Way back over 400 years ago there were lots of shipwrecks off the coast. They think that some of the horses swam ashore from shipwrecks on big boats called Spanish Galleons and survived on Assateague Island in Virginia and on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
When I was a little girl, my grandmother bought me a book about a horse named Misty, who lived on Assateague Island.
Grampy and I are near Assateague, on an island called Chincoteague, and took pictures of some of the wild horses who are still living here now. They are smaller than the big horses you see, more like ponies.
These are some of the ponies in a pen. We were feeding them. When we come to your house, we will be able to tell you a bed time story about them!
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