For Sale
Name
Barney
Breed
Mustang
Gender
Gelding
Color
Sorrel
Temperament
7 (1 - calm; 10 - spirited)
Registry
NA
Reg Number
NA
Height
15.0 hh
Foal Date
April, 2003
Country
United States
Views/Searches
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Ad Status
—
Price
$1,900
Mustang Gelding for Sale in Reno, NV
Barney is current on his immunizations and recently saw the farrier. Solid on his feet, trails, rides with bid or halter. Only vice is that he has not been ridden consistently.
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.