horses of cumberland island

 

Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia is home to bands of feral horses.  Although I had hoped to see horses on the beach, today they were in the meadows. Cumberland Island, once home to the Carnegie family, is a National Seashore operated by the National Park Service and accessible only by boat.. There is still limited privately owned property but the feral horses outnumber the few residents.

 

Cumberland Island, Georgia

 



horses of hale county

 

The horses who live in this pen share their barn with a stately steed.  It's great to see art on the outbuildings and as soon as I become acquainted with the new owners of this place, you'll see more.

 

South of Hale Center

Hale County, Texas

2.15.2015

out to pasture

 

Both the barn with its leaning stance and peeling paint and the horses with bony haunches and visible ribs have seen better days.  Founded in 1880, Benson  was as a stopping point for the Butterfield Overland Stage mail delivery route.  The stage robbery on the Benson-Tombstone Stage Route in 1881 took the life of stagecoach driver Bud Philpot and became one of the events that led to the Earp-Clanton gunfight at the O.K. Corral in nearby Tombstone.

 

Benson, Arizona

2.28.2014

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section 7

 

My grandfather acquired Section 7, east of New Deal, in February 1939 from Mrs. Myrta Bacon at a price of $16,000 -- or $25.00 an acre.  For decades this was viable farmland producing bales of cotton.  After his death, the land passed into different hands and was parceled.  Last year my nephew Seth, Mr. Bill's great-grandson, purchased the northern portion of the section.  The south half is no longer farmed; horses graze the reverted pastureland.

 

My dad was released from the hospital today about noon--by 1:30 we were in the pickup surveying the crops.

 

Section 7

Lubbock County, Texas