Racing Horses for Sale near Fort Collins, CO

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Paint - Horse for Sale in Windsor, CO 80550
Cloey
This big beautiful mare will bring looks, speed and size to your herd. She ..
Windsor, Colorado
Overo
Paint
Mare
13
Windsor, CO
CO
$3,000
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About Fort Collins, CO

Fort Collins was founded as a military outpost of the United States Army in 1864. It succeeded a previous encampment, known as Camp Collins, on the Cache La Poudre River, near what is known today as Laporte. Camp Collins was erected during the Indian wars of the mid-1860s to protect the Overland mail route that had been recently relocated through the region. Travelers crossing the county on the Overland Trail would camp there, but a flood destroyed the camp in June 1864. Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O.