Equitation Arabian Horses for Sale near Denver, CO

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Arabian Stallion
Sabre would be a perfect youth horse. He has shown in Hunter Pleasure, Hu..
Fort Lupton, Colorado
Bay
Arabian
Stallion
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Fort Lupton, CO
CO
$13,000
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In the summer of 1858, during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, a group of gold prospectors from Lawrence, Kansas established Montana City as a mining town on the banks of the South Platte River in what was then western Kansas Territory. This was the first historical settlement in what was later to become the city of Denver. The site faded quickly, however, and by the summer of 1859 it was abandoned in favor of Auraria (named after the gold-mining town of Auraria, Georgia) and St. Charles City. On November 22, 1858, [ contradictory ] General William Larimer and Captain Jonathan Cox, Esquire, both land speculators from eastern Kansas Territory, placed cottonwood logs to stake a claim on the bluff overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, across the creek from the existing mining settlement of Auraria, and on the site of the existing townsite of St.