“The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature direct towards him.” – Auguste Rodin
BISON PORTRAITS
HORSE PORTRAITS
“The sunshine’s golden gleam is thrown, on sorrel, chestnut, bay and roan.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
SADDLE-BRONC RIDIN’
“I’ll come flyin’ from the chute with my spurs up high
Chaps and boots reachin’ for the sky
Spurrin’ wild with my head throw’d back
You’ll ask whose that well that’s
Bareback Jack…”
– Chris Ledoux, “Bareback Jack”
DRAFT HORSES
WILD MONTANA
FROZEN WATERFALLS
MAN’S BEST FRIEND
“It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.”
– John Grogan (Author, Marley & Me)
ALPINE GLOW & SUNSETS
THE AMERICAN BISON
Over 60 million bison roamed America’s plains and grasslands in the late 1700’s. By 1889, only 541 remained. The American bison had almost come face to face with complete extinction.
In 1901, at Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Buffalo Ranch, its last 25 remaining bison were protected and bred with bison from privately raised herds. Today, the park’s bison population is in the thousands.
“The wild things of the earth are not ours to do with as we please. They have been given to us in trust, and we must account for them to the generations which will come after us and audit our accounts.”
William T. Hornaday,
Smithsonian naturalist and founder of the American Bison Society, 1943
