Photographer and journalist Jeri Dobrowski shared patriotic images from a Medora, North Dakota Flag Day parade and from from a 2006 ride by the members of the 7th Cavalry, from Fort Mandan to Little Big Horn.
Read Jeri Dobrowski's Cowboy Jam Session and more about her here.
Medora, North Dakota Flag Day parade
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Sheila Marie, horseback on one of the black and white Paints from her Painted Badlands Ranch, which specializes in black and white overo Paints, black Quarter Horses and blue roan Quarter Horses.
Photo by Jeri L. Dobrowski, obtain permission for reproduction rightsAbove is a photo of the 7th Cavalry drill team from Dickinson, North Dakota. The riders each carry a different flag representative of some significant event in American history. The emcee for the group tells which flag the rider is posting, tells about the historical significance and then they play a short musical piece; a touching and educational display.
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Miss Rodeo Prairie Rose (Wing, N.D.), Carly Backhaus and Miss Rodeo Mandan, N.D. Ashley Andrews.
Ashley Andrews went on to become Miss Rodeo America. Read more about her at the Miss Rodeo America web site and in a Bismark Tribune article here, which also tells about her battle with cancer.
Members of the 7th Cavalry, on a 2006 Ride
from Fort Mandan to Little Big Horn
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Photo by Jeri L. Dobrowski, obtain permission for reproduction rightsSgt. Don Keller, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in the lead, and flag bearer,
Trooper Pat Sulser, Rockford, Illinois.
Photo by Jeri L. Dobrowski, obtain permission for reproduction rightsBugler, Corporal Bob McDaniel from Plainfield, Illinois
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