Matthew Staver for The New York Times
The potential wild horse sanctuary is intended to be at least partly self-sufficient, through tourist visits.
By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: March 14, 2012
CENTENNIAL, Wyo. — This was prime horse country once, in the old Western working way of bridles, bits and sweat. Leather tack from those days still hangs, cracked and preserved in the arid dust, on the wall of the 1906 vintage hay loft at the Wilson place.
Matthew Staver for The New York Times
Jana and Rich Wilson, who once raised cattle on their 4,700-acre Deerwood Ranch, outside Centennial, Wyo., hope to be approved by the Bureau of Land Management for a pilot project to shelter a herd of 250 wild horses.
Little other evidence is left, though. Horsepower on the ranch went under the hood and was called four-wheel drive. Horsehair rifle sights, once supplied to the United States Army from the Centennial Valley here in southeastern Wyoming, were supplanted by newer technologies. Horses became gentle, recreational and costly to keep.
Now the rougher version is about to return.
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