Author’s Note: The horse’s name and image have been changed in respect of privacy. I went to a ranch to check on a horse recovering from an abscess. After a recent rainstorm, I heard he’d been relocated to a paddock below. As I descended the weathered wooden staircase, another horse grabbed my attention. She had

I grew up riding horses barefoot and bareback in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. I don’t have any pictures to document these adventures because they all occurred before the era of the iPhone, and we never carried a disposable camera in the pockets of our shorts. So I have chosen this quintessential photograph of Bo