There are still places in America where the horses run free. But to quote Utah historian and writer Wallace Stegner, “Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”
We need it—desperately.
To have access to wide-open spaces, with land owned by no man, is to understand the otherness of things. It is to experience the thrill of solitude; of self-reliance—things that don’t come easy in a dependence-driven world.
And in the Valley of the Sun, when daylight comes creeping over the eastern ridge of the Arapaho’s, the halcyon light reveals an entirely different way of life. And we are better for having experienced it.
Thankfully, there are still places in America where the horses run free.
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