Breeding Horses for Sale near Reno, NV

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Quarter Horse Stallion
Val has a great temperment, easy breeder, is fast, can stop, and turn on a ..
Gardnerville, Nevada
Gray
Quarter Horse
Stallion
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Gardnerville, NV
NV
$250
Thoroughbred Mare
Lady is 16 and very well trained. She can only be ridden lightly, She als..
Reno, Nevada
Chestnut
Thoroughbred
Mare
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Reno, NV
NV
$500
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About Reno, NV

Archaeological finds place the eastern border for the prehistoric Martis people in the Reno area. As early as the mid 1850s a few pioneers settled in the Truckee Meadows, a relatively fertile valley through which the Truckee River made its way from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake. In addition to subsistence farming, these early residents could pick up business from travelers along the California Trail, which followed the Truckee westward, before branching off towards Donner Lake, where the formidable obstacle of the Sierra Nevada began. Gold was discovered in the vicinity of Virginia City in 1850, and a modest mining community developed, but the discovery of silver in 1859 at the Comstock Lode led to a mining rush, and thousands of emigrants left their homes, bound for the West, hoping to find a fortune. To provide the necessary connection between Virginia City and the California Trail, Charles W.