Eventing Horses for Sale near Sparks, 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
Hanoverian Mare
Hanoverian / Anglo - Arab mare perfect for the adult or child who doesn't w..
South Lake Tahoe, California
Chestnut
Hanoverian
Mare
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South Lake Tahoe, CA
CA
$8,000
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About Sparks, NV

The area that is now Sparks was first inhabited by the Washoe people. Euro-American settlement began in the early 1850s, and the population density remained very low until 1904 when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a switch yard and maintenance sheds there, after moving the division point from Wadsworth. In 1902, The Southern Pacific purchased a large tract of swamp-like land near its newly built railyard, and gave everyone clear deed to a 50' x 140' lot for the grand sum of $1. They also offered to pick up and move — free of charge — every house in Wadsworth and reassemble it in this new town. As the population increased, a city was established, first called Harriman, after E.H.