Mongolia

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Pony round-up, Mongolian-style. It was the looming threat of the Mongols that changed Ming China's focus from the sea and Zheng He's expeditions back to the land and defense of the Great Wall.
Brocade-clad cowboys wrangler their ponies for annual inoculations. The Mongolian horse has always been famed for its sturdiness and stamina.
Brocade-clad cowboys wrangler their ponies for annual inoculations. The Mongolian horse has always been famed for its sturdiness and stamina.
The Mongols, with their swift ponies, were the most ferocious army in the 15th Century. After Zhu Dhi took sick and died while fighting aginst them, his successors literally and figuratively pulled up anchor and turned inward.
A portrait of Genghis Khan hangs in every Mongolian yurt, the circular, domed tents used as housing by these nomadic peoples.
Hands-on wrangling speeds a round up on the plains of Inner Mongolia. The high place of horses in Mongol life reached to the court of ruler Kublai Khan. Marco, a favored courier, reported that Kublai once received as a gift "more than 100,000 white horses very beautiful and fine."