I was talking to our tour guide on this trip and he said his wife was riding in an overnight trek from Kayenta to Monument Valley on horseback... he said maybe 40-50 riders do it annually. Riding horses on the great Navajo reservation is still a well used activity! Nice band of horses!
They enjoy the curious... and they have no fear of Dummies like me. They are tame.
And they were all branded, some had a Bar-B brand but I couldn't see all the brands.
Sometimes they must have been fed from a truck as evidenced by their curiosity.