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I met Bugz in 1999 shortly after her band had been wiped out. Like the other mustangs of the West, their history in this land runs deep their ancestors flourished on this continent during the Ice Age, crossed the Bering land bridge, fanned out across the world, went extinct here and then returned with conquistadors, quickly re-establishing themselves in their homeland, blazing our trails and fighting our wars, ultimately - like many people - heading into Nevada to be left alone. I came to think of her as the luckiest horse in Reno.īugz was a member of the Virginia Range herd, the first mustangs in the country to win legal protection. As it turned out, the filly was the lone survivor of the Christmas massacre and they called her Bugz. And because a band of bachelor stallions had been nearby when she was found, her rescuers figured that they had taken her in, looking after her until they could no more, standing guard as she lay down in the brush to die. Without mother's milk, a foal can last for a while in the wilderness, sometimes as long as a couple of months. Because of her location when rescued, and because she was starving, her rescuers reasoned that she had been a nursing foal who had recently lost her mother. Yet she was nervous, not skittish like a lot of horses are, especially wild ones she was distracted, preoccupied, perhaps even haunted. Over the weeks, they nourished her and she grew strong and regained muscle and she began to walk without falling down. Two days later, at their sanctuary in Carson City called Wild Horse Spirit, Betty and her partner Bobbi Royle helped her stand. She was covered with ticks and parasites, weak and anemic. "She was a carcass with a winter coat," Betty Lee Kelly, a rescuer, later told me. Four men lifted her onto a platform and carried her down the hill and into the trailer. The stars were particularly bright that night and helped the rescue party, equipped only with flashlights, lumber across the sands and up the rocky rise where the filly was down. As it grew dark, a trailer was pulled across the washes and gulleys until it approached the filly, about a hundred yards away and down hill. A vet arrived and could find no injuries. She tried to get up but couldn't and the stallion rejoined his little band. A bachelor stallion had been watching from a distance and now came over and nibbled at the foal's neck. He saw a dark foal lying down in the sagebrush, not able to get up. Something made him look to his left, up a hill. Two months later on a cold and sunny afternoon, a man was hiking in the mountains outside Reno. Two-thousand years earlier, Christ had been born in a stable.
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The men were shouting and then there was another bright light-it trained from the vehicle across the sunken bajada and it swept the sands, illuminating the wild and running four-legged spirits as their legs stretched in full perfect extension, flashing across their hides which were dun and paint and bay, making a living mural in 3-D in which the American story-all of it-was frozen here forever, in the desert as it always is, as bullets hissed from the vehicle through the patches of juniper and into the wild horses of the old frontier. Perhaps the mare, already upright, bolted instantly, turning her head to see if the foal had followed. Obnoxious'',that was released a year after his death.He also made some guest appearances with other rappers like DJ Carl, 5150, M.O.B,and also made an underground EP with his group D-12,along with many other released and unreleased unfinished songs.It's sad that his life had to end so early,especially knowing that he had a hard life,especially his childhood,because his father left him and his family,while he was still a child.The black foal might have taken a second or two longer than the others to rise. Bugz (real name Karnail Pitts) was born on January 5,1978 ,in Detroit,Michigan.At the beginning he was freestyling and battling on the streets of Detroit.On one occasion,he battled Bizarre (later a member of D-12).After that,the two became friends,and Bizarre introduced him to Eminem,who at the time was creating a 6 member rap group.He was impressed by Bugz's rap skills,and since he was a one man short to create a rap group,he automatically assigned Bugz to a group,that will later be known as '' D-12''.Just two days after Eminem signed the group to his newly formed record label '' Shady Records'',Bugz was killed.In the meantime,Bugz recorded his solo EP,called '' These Streets EP'',and he finished his first and only solo album '' Mr.