PHOTO OF THE DAY May 17, 2005  

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Where Pryor Mountains, Montana
When 2001
Photographer Chris Johns

On the Montana/Wyoming border, the Pryor Mountains are home to a small herd of wild horses. Believed to be of Spanish ancestry, the herd includes a unique breed of American mustang.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Searching for Sacagawea," February 2003, National Geographic magazine)


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