Wild Mustangs

 Wild horses, running free, symbolizes the American West.

"A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground and break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open."  -  Gerald Raferty

"You occasionally see one, and it's the thrill of a lifetime.  But mostly all you ever see is a cloud of dust after they are gone.  It's their stubborn ability to survive that makes them so remarkable."  - Velma "Wild Horse Annie" Johnston 

Buffalo Bill Cody released a number of his horses near the McCullough Peaks just outside Cody, Wyoming.  The descendants have prospered in the wild.  This is what they look like today:

We set out one evening to take a look at the wild mustangs.  Laurie and Todd got this fine picture of a stallion, all alone in his old age and abandoned by his band.

It was a nice, quiet, evening out on the range between the Bighorn and Absoroka mountain ranges.