Team Roping Horses for Sale near Virden, IL

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Paint Stallion
3 white socks. Blaze Face w / blue eyes. Calm on the trail, and speed in t..
Beardstown, Illinois
Palomino
Paint
Stallion
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Beardstown, IL
IL
$3,500
Paint Mare
This outstanding mare is out of Barlink Mr. Macho Man, son of Barlink Macho..
Edinburg, Illinois
Sorrel
Paint
Mare
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Edinburg, IL
IL
$2,500
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About Virden, IL

Virden sits atop a large seam of coal. After the 1850s, when the Chicago and Alton railroad was completed, it became possible to mine Virden coal and ship it long distances for a profit. Throughout the second half of the 1800s, Virden prospered and grew as a coal-mining town. A bitter coal strike broke out in 1898. The Chicago-Virden Coal Company, fearing loss of key business in Chicago, refused to allow its Virden mines to be unionized, nor would it pay the nonunionized miners union-scale wages.