The landscape was as beautiful as Daniel had hoped. Over the next week, he went on short hikes around the property with his least expensive camera to take test shots. His cabin was near a shallow valley with a stream running through it that took up about a fifth of the ranch’s total acreage. Daniel could stand on a ledge overlooking it all and take photo after photo of the horizon, the trees, the wildlife, the cattle grazing and slowly making their way to the stream to drink, and of the men watching over them.
Cole was hard to spot at first. All of the men on horseback looked much the same in their T-shirts and Stetsons, but once Daniel stopped paying attention to just the men, he noticed Cole always rode a chestnut horse with a white stripe on its nose and white forelegs. Daniel had to z
