Friday, December 30, 2011

Montana Roundup

(Photo by Cheryl-Anne Millsap)


It was like stepping into an iconic Montana billboard. Watching cowboys rounding up bucking horses for the next day's rodeo during the 2010 North American Indian Days in Browning, Montana, I was struck by the beauty of it all. I felt the vibration of the thundering hooves as the herd appeared over the hill. I listened to the men shouting as they rode, reining in their mounts, moving in and out to force the horses into the proper corral. Foals whinnied for their mothers and the herd's stallion reared and postured as he circled the corral.

It was the kind of moment that brings me back to Montana again and again.

2 comments:

  1. Hah! Those are my cousin Beau Michael's horses. At least part of them.

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  2. Does he work with Mouse Hall? (I think that's his name...)

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