With hope waning, horse is found

On Nov. 15, two months of sleepless nights, searching, agonizing, and waiting for the phone to ring came to an end for Cloquet's Anne Gullion. Her 23-year-old horse Taz, which had disappeared from the Cutfoot Sioux Horse Camp in Itasca County in mid-September, had been found.

Without her horse, her world had become a blur.

Gullion and a group of friends had been at the camp northwest of Deer River, in the Chippewa National Forest, as they had done many times before. Taz had somehow come off his picket line while the group was having breakfast at a nearby campsite. When Gullion returned to her...