Descriptive writing in "The Stone Horse"

The part to me in "The Stone Horse" that I was most drawn to was after he went and spoke to the BLM archeologist in the beginning of section 2. He went to get directions to be directly in front of the horse so he could actually learn more from it. I was even more drawn into the story once he started explaining what he was seeing and feeling. "When I released my breath, the images softened. My initial feeling, of facing a wild animal in a remote region, was replaced with a calm sense of antiquity" (p. 500, paragraph 19). As he is describing what he is feeling, he uses imagery to try and place his reader basically in his position. He uses descriptive wording to make you want to be able to see what he is seeing but to also place the image in your head as you are reading. As I was reading this, the way he describes the horse and it's history helped me get a better understanding of what the horse looked like and also why the horse was important to Barry Lopez.