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http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/wild-mustangs-south-dakota.html

Wild Mustangs, South Dakota, 2004
Photograph by Maggie Steber

In the wind-tossed plains of Lantry, South Dakota, two wild mustangs playfully kick and cavort. Descended from Spanish horses brought in by Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century, mustangs represent a tenuous link to America’s frontier past. Researchers estimate the U.S. was once home to more than two million mustangs; today there are fewer than 50,000.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Indian Scenes From a Renaissance," September 2004, National Geographic magazine)

译文:

野马,南达科塔,2004
摄影:Maggie Steber

微风轻拂过南达科塔Lantry的草原，两匹野马在玩笑式地踢打、腾跃。继承自16世纪西班牙征服者带来的西班牙马，野马与美国西部开拓史有着某种细微联系。研究者估计，美国曾经分布着超过两百万匹野马；如今只剩下不到五万匹。

(照片来源于《重现印第安场景》(2004年9月,国家地理杂志)未发表部分)