Blue Horses

Just before Montana Highway 287 drops you onto Interstate 90 from the north, near the town of Three Forks, the blue horses appear on a hill to the right.  In certain light you might think them the real thing.  But as you look more closely the sometimes odd twist of a leg or the straightness of a flank makes you reevaluate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The horses, thirty-nine life-sized steel sculptures, are the work of a local artist named Jim Dolan.   Just as the Terracotta Warriors in Xian, China, each horse is a distinct individual of original design.  On several occasions I have stopped to admire the horses—frozen there in time.  Yesterday, while driving back from a work engagement in Bozeman, Jug Jones and I stopped and looked over the remuda as late snowstorms swept over the distant mountain and wheatfield backdrop.

Posted are two photographs from our stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Mitchell Hegman