16th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Wild horses of San Luis Valley, Colorado

Some of the country's remaining wild horses reside in Colorado's San Luis Valley. This herd finds two females very pregnant; continuing on the lineage of those same horses of Spanish conquistadors. There would be not be a New World without these creatures.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2017
Date Uploaded: 07.2018
Photo Location: San Luis , Colorado, United States of America
Camera: Canon EOS REBEL T3i
Copyright: © Eileen Skahill