"Horses and Chariots" by Alan C. Miner

[Hemidakota]

Meridian Magazine: Book of Mormon: Horses and Chariots

Tidbits:

Alma 18:9 states that "the king had commanded his servants — that they should prepare his horses and chariots, and conduct him forth to the land of Nephi ." Two major questions have been raised by anti-LDS critics of the Book of Mormon concerning the statement that there were "horses and chariots" on the American continents before the time of Christ (see Alma 18:9).

These critics have maintained that:

no horses existed on the American continents before the time of Columbus ; and

the people who lived on the American continents did not know the principle of the wheel before the coming of Columbus

[carltonwms]

Assuming that Columbus had horses ( based on the size of the boat seems like there would be few ) and some became feral what would be the natural propogation of the horse in 200 years? How would you account for the horses the Plains Indians used?