The icon of Wyoming that people instantly recognize is a cowboy riding a bucking horse. The roots of that image come from Sheridan.

George Ostrem took his horse Red Wing to France in World War I with the Wyoming National Guard. While there, Ostrem painted a picture of Red Wing on the company drum and it became the symbol of the 148th Field Artillery.

This was the first cowboy image of Wyoming, recognized across France and Germany during the war.

But it is another horse that is the icon of Wyoming and associated with the image on the Wyoming license plate and with the University of Wyoming Cowboys: Steamboat, a black colt with three white stockings foaled on the Frank Foss Ranch near Chugwater in 1896.

Jimmy Danks was the first man to fork the horse. Like he did with other Swan Land

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