does anyone have a detailed photo of a Wyoming state route shield?

[agentsteel53]

if so, could they please email it to me at shields@aaroads.com

either the yellow and brown, or yellow and black modern variety, and with the shield at least 1000 pixels in height... and if it's a close-up of just the cowboy on the bronco, even better!  

I've got the state outline figured out but all my photos are missing bronco detail ... turns out I've driven thousands miles in Wyoming, and not once did I stop to take a photo of a state route up close!  

thank you!

[corco]

I'll drive across town right now and get you one. Give me 30 minutes.

[agentsteel53]

sweet, thanks! 

[corco]

http://www.davidjcorcoran.com/images/aaroadsforum/IMG_5528.JPG whole shield
http://www.davidjcorcoran.com/images/aaroadsforum/IMG_5527.JPG pretty good bucking horse shot (this being the narrow bucking horse- there's also a wide bucking horse on some shields, but the narrow one is more common- I can get you a wide one tomorrow if you want it)

[rawmustard]

You might've just taken a look at an image from Wikimedia Commons.

[corco]

that's the fairly common fat bucking horse though, or more correctly that's the bucking horse used by the University of Wyoming that erroneously appears on official state stuff.

Little known fact- UW and the state of Wyoming officially use two different bucking horses but they frequently get mixed up

[rawmustard]

that's the fairly common fat bucking horse though, or more correctly that's the bucking horse used by the University of Wyoming that erroneously appears on official state stuff.

Little known fact- UW and the state of Wyoming officially use two different bucking horses but they frequently get mixed up

It looks like the "fat" one is filled-in between the reins and the horse's neck. Might it be they made that one to try to avoid trademark infringement?

[corco]

They actually developed independently about 80 years ago. They both are silhouettes of actual people on actual horses, and each one represents a different rider on a different horse. Because both trademarks are now owned by the state of Wyoming, they get used fairly interchangeably, usually with the narrow one.

[agentsteel53]

the trademarking seems to be fairly new... at least, a photo of a 1985 shield I have shows no little (R) next to the bronco.

there are at least two other versions of the bronco out there too, but I've seen them only on 1930s and 1950s embossed shields, respectively.  I wonder what the license plate has, as for a while that was embossed, but now it is printed, if I recall correctly.


two feet on the ground


one foot on the ground

[corco]

The 2009 issue plate uses the narrow cowboy