/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

In my Georgia History class I was assigned an article on the Georgia land lottery and Indian Removal. During the land lottery, it mentions members of a "Pony Club" were omitted from entering the raffle. The only comment on them in the article was a citation to the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper saying the following:

>The "Pony Club" was a loosely organized band of white intruders who, like the
later Ku Klux Klan, rode by night through the countryside visiting death and destruction on their victims - in this case, Cherokee households. Cherokee Phoenix, February
11, 25, May 27, 1829.

Google search results yielded me little information about this mysterious "Pony Club."
Below are the highlights of what I could find. However, the original description interests me much more.

>Pony Club: a club or set of individuals who deal with horses, but it doesn’t mean today what it did in 1827. Like the Murrel Gang, the Pony Club had members in various parts of Georgia who would facilitate the movement of “hot property”, mostly stolen horses, from county to county and state to state.

>They operated exclusively in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and to some extent South Carolina, from about 1814 until the 1840s and were found mainly in the frontier areas from Hall to Muscogee County, Georgia, but also mentioned in Jackson and Bibb Counties as well as along the old Federal Road to New Orleans.

>During its first few years Carroll County was truly frontier territory. A band of horse thieves called the Pony Club for a time dominated local affairs through both fear and control of local government.

Sounds like it fits mlpol quite well. Freeing ponies from savage Indians since 1814.