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Horses grazing in a pasture below mountains, with haystack – Historic Reproduction

Horses grazing in a pasture below mountains, with haystack — historic image
Horses grazing in a pasture below mountains, with haystack. Historic image from the Horses collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Horses grazing in a pasture below mountains, with haystack. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Horses grazing in a pasture below mountains, with haystack

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Grazing horses drift across a pasture here, with a haystack standing nearby and mountains rising in the background. The pairing of working livestock, a stacked hay supply, and open high country is typical of ranch and farm life in the American West and in mountain valleys elsewhere, where hay was cut and stored to carry animals through the winter. Scenes like this were often recorded to show the rhythm of rural work, and the haystack is worth noticing as a reminder that the horses' ease in the field depended on labor done months earlier.

Original scan7,768 × 6,010 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a34229u Horse breeding ranch, Grant Co., Oregon

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