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Sweet, smooth and sassy

I have to admit a personal bias: I love ’57 Chevys. On Saturday, I was featuring hunting when I came across a little car show going on about two blocks from the newsroom. Walking through the cars, I immediately gravitated to a gorgeous 1957 Chevy Bel Air. After about 30 or so frames from this angle, I struck up a conversation with the owner about his car. I grew up around and inside ’57 Chevys. My dad owns one that he drives to car conventions every summer. Before moving to Cheyenne in January, the only time I had seen the city was from the backseat of my dad’s Bel Air as we drove to Reno, Nevada from Indiana.

Spectators lean over to get a better look at the inside of a 1957 Chevy Bel Air owned by Jim Elmore of Cheyenne during a car show on Saturday, May 7, 2011, along Thomas Avenue in front of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in downtown Cheyenne. Warm weather with no wind drew several cars and curious spectators. Advertisements in 1957 dubbed the car "sweet, smooth and sassy."
Spectators lean over to get a better look at the inside of a 1957 Chevy Bel Air owned by Jim Elmore of Cheyenne during a car show on Saturday, May 7, 2011, along Thomas Avenue in front of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in downtown Cheyenne. Warm weather with no wind drew several cars and curious spectators. Advertisements in 1957 dubbed the car "sweet, smooth and sassy."

Wyoming wild horse auction

I went back out to the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne today for the second day in a row. I was there on Friday photographing folks looking at wild-born horses that were to be auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management. Today was the auction itself and several ranchers showed up to bid on the young horses, including Erich Pröll, an Austrian filmmaker who bought two horses to take back to a ranch he owns near Linz in northern Austria. The BLM captures several young, wild-born horses every year and auctions them off in an effort to control the wild-horse population in the west. Horses don’t have many predators in the wild and, unlike wild game like antelope and deer, the government cannot use hunting seasons to control the population. The first horse sold for $750, to Pröll, but several went for less than $300.

Auctioneer Scott Fluer, of Lander, auctions off a wild-born horse during an adoption sale on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. The Bureau of Land Management captures wild horses each year and auction them off after some training in an effort to control the wild horse population.
Auctioneer Scott Fluer, of Lander, auctions off a wild-born horse during an adoption sale on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. The Bureau of Land Management captures wild horses each year and auction them off after some training in an effort to control the wild horse population.
Wild horse trainer Steve Mantle watches as officials from the Bureau of Land Management auction off several horses trained at his ranch on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne.
Wild horse trainer Steve Mantle watches as officials from the Bureau of Land Management auction off several horses trained at his ranch on Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne.

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Wyoming wild horse adoption

Kathi Wilson, of Cheyenne, laughs as she performs a trick with her horse, Snickers, on Friday, April 29, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. Snickers, a wild-born horse, was adopted from the Steve Mantle Training Facility in 2003. Several people came to the ranch on Friday to view yearling mustangs that will be auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Kathi Wilson, of Cheyenne, laughs as she performs a trick with her horse, Snickers, on Friday, April 29, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. Snickers, a wild-born horse, was adopted from the Steve Mantle Training Facility in 2003. Several people came to the ranch on Friday to view yearling mustangs that will be auctioned off by the Bureau of Land Management starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Jeff Martin, wild horse supervisor at the Wyoming Honor Farm, puts spoon, a gray stud colt, through his paces as he demonstrates to an audience how to train a wild horse on Friday, April 29, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. Spoon is one of several wild horses that are up for auction on Saturday at the ranch.
Jeff Martin, wild horse supervisor at the Wyoming Honor Farm, puts spoon, a gray stud colt, through his paces as he demonstrates to an audience how to train a wild horse on Friday, April 29, 2011, at the Riata Ranch near Cheyenne. Spoon is one of several wild horses that are up for auction on Saturday at the ranch.

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