No single fish, fowl, or animal captures the spirit of
America’s Golden West more completely, more dramatically,
and more romantically than the wild mustang—magnified
incrementally and exponentially even more so because the
mustangs traditionally live and travel in family units, bands and
small herds.
The movie or documentary photographer who captures a
herd of wild mustangs running free up and down mountain
plateaus and across the high desert of the Great Basin transmits
so much more than images to the viewer. Emotions pour through
the lens and into our hearts. We know what freedom looks like
and feels like.
We feel the joy of watching mustangs do what they do
best—run with power and with stamina, and run free, run
natural, run in harmony with each other, run in harmony with the
earth, run in harmony with the wind and the sky.
Mustangs are America’s natural athletes. They live wild in a
hostile environment. That which does not kill them makes them
stronger. They are independent and self-sufficient. They can
sense another animal coming up a ridge out of sight a quarter of
a mile away.
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