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Recipient of the 2008 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Photography Honorable mention, Eric Hoffer Award, Art category Recipient of the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards regional award, West-Mountain: Best Regional Non-Fiction National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist in the Art category Finalist, 2009 Benjamin Franklin Awards, Animals/Pets category Wild horses: bold, elusive, independent. Above all, free. Or are they? Most of us consider wild horses honored emblems of our Western spirit, but some see them as a resource to exploit or even a pest to eliminate. Which are they? For Carol Walker, the photographer and author of Wild Hoofbeats, the answer begins not in abstract argument over symbols and statistics, but with the horses themselves.