Brown Ranch Work Horses for Sale near Fort Collins, CO

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Paint Stallion
Wego is for sale. He is very athletic, 11 years & needs a focused rider t..
Windsor, Colorado
Brown
Paint
Stallion
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Windsor, CO
CO
$5,400
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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.