cowboys watching an approaching storm in Nebraska
Great Fountain Geyser at Yellowstone National Park
a Native American woman on horseback, at the Pendleton Round-Up, Oregon
mustangs running on the plains of Nevada
buckaroo Stan Kendall alone in Mountain City, Nevada
light streaming into the caves of Antelope Canyon, Arizona
the Colorado River and Horseshoe Bend, Arizona
a cowboy castrating a young bull, in Utica, Montana
lightning striking near Chimney Rock, Colorado
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Nebraska, 2004

A pair of workers halts haying in the Sand Hills to watch with concern and awe as rolling thunderheads fill the afternoon sky.

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Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic

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