About Nokota Wild Preservation

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For generations, these remarkable horses survived on the Northern Plains and in the rugged Badlands of western North Dakota.  Their story reaches through Native American horse culture, the open ranges of Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt's years in the Badlands, and the small bands of free-ranging horses that survived into the twentieth century.  In the late 1970s, brothers Frank and Leo Kuntz recognized that important representatives of these historic Badlands horses were disappearing.  They decided to save them.  Over the decades that followed, Frank and Leo acquired horses removed from Theodore Roosevelt National Park and devoted much of their lives and personal resources to preserving them and their bloodlines.  Those horses became known as Nokotas.  Today, the work continues.

Nokota Wild Preservation was created to help protect these horses, preserve their important bloodlines, and build a sustainable future for generations to come.