Trail Horses for Sale near Socorro, NM

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Missouri Fox Trotter Mare
Sassy is a drop dead gorgeous MFT mare. Fabulous personality, smooth gait,..
Mountainair, New Mexico
Pinto
Missouri Fox Trotter
Mare
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Mountainair, NM
NM
$3,500
Missouri Fox Trotter Stallion
Angel's Baby is a beautiful chestnut gelding that has a wonderful personal..
Mountainair, New Mexico
Chestnut
Missouri Fox Trotter
Stallion
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Mountainair, NM
NM
$3,000
Appaloosa Stallion
Big Sorrel with a flaxen mane, two white socks, star, strip and a snip. Ver..
Socorro, New Mexico
Sorrel
Appaloosa
Stallion
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Socorro, NM
NM
$1,200
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About Socorro, NM

In June 1598, Juan de Oñate led a group of Spanish settlers through the Jornada del Muerto, an inhospitable patch of desert that ends just south of the present-day city of Socorro. As the Spaniards emerged from the desert, Piro Indians of the pueblo of Teypana gave them food and water. Therefore, the Spaniards renamed this pueblo Socorro, which means "help" or "aid". Later, the name "Socorro" would be applied to the nearby Piro pueblo of Pilabó. Nuestra Señora de Perpetuo Socorro, the first Catholic mission in the area, was probably established c.