How it All Began
The Western States Trail finds its origins with the Native People who lived as hunters and gatherers as part of sophisticated trade and seasonal migration patterns who moved across the Great Basin from what is modern-day Utah into northern Nevada, California and the mountains around Lake Tahoe. From their various ancestral homes, these routes of seasonal migration proved key. The Washoe people, for example, traveled to the shores of Lake Tahoe “
Da ow aga” (“edge of the lake”) to harvest spring plants, to pick berries and seeds that had both nutritional and medicinal value and to catch the lake’s native fish. With the arrival of white explorers and settlers years and years later, the footprints of the Native People would prove to be a guide, a link through the wilderness, and would aid another group of people on their journey.
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Dixie Kendall and Steele on an endurance ride. Credit: Noelle Synder/TAA
The old adage of “slow and steady wins the race” may just be true with the racing career of Casey s Lear. The daughter of Musketier (GER) finished last in a field of nine under Churchill Down s famed twin spires in her first and only start, a maiden claiming race for 2-year-old fillies. The striking grey then made her way to TAA-accredited Second Stride to find a more suitable job.
Looking for a new endurance mount, Dixie Kendall was immediately taken by what she saw about Casey s Lear first, her beautiful coat; and second, that she had some trail experience. The decision was an easy one for Kendall, who brought Casey s Lear home and appropriately renamed her “Steele.”
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