This past week Morris took me out to the portion of the Peigan Reservation known as the Hay Lease. Back in the day this land was used, as the name implies, to gather hay. This area is made up of 41 sections of land (a section being 640acres), which means it's unbelievably vast. Roaming these spectacular grasslands are huge herds of Peigan Horses.. Morris tells me there are about 3000 horses spread across the Hay Lease in smaller herds of a few hundred, as seen here.It's so rare these days to find place like this. Places where the land remains unbroken, having never seen a plow. While we were out on the land Morris told me a story of when he brought a rancher he used to work for as a younger man out here. After being in a the Hay Lease for a while the rancher finally broke the silence, "I thought the west was broken," he said, and then went on, "if I were you, I'd shoot anyone I see near this place with a plow!"
My sentiments exactly.
peace,
d
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