Juan Rael in his cowboy days. Photo provided by Nicholas Rael. (I love writing about cowboys. I found this story in my archives, told to me by longtime Fort Collins resident and former co-worker Nicholas Rael. I remembered it today when my writing/readers group,...
George Washington, by all accounts, was quite the horseman, except for the fact that he let his own horse die of the heat at the Battle of Monmouth, 1778. This picture, purchased at the Brass Armadillo Antique Mall, showing George at left on a dark horse, had been cut...
Interesting form. Enjoy our Horses in History slide show. Learn about our historic farm.
... or did they even have french fries in 1908? This historic horse postcard, hand dated and postmarked, November 13, 1908, shows horses in two different jobs during a potato harvest in "Northern Colorado". This appears to actually be the Edwards Farm in our very own...
Check out this new Poudre River video for answers to: How did the flooding Poudre River give birth to Fort Collins? Who were the movers and shakers of early Fort Collins? How did N. Shields St. farms, several of which still exist today, help the local economy? Soon,...
We originally published this story in MyHoofprints.com, August 28, 2013 Also: Watch our Horses in History slide show. Joseph Messier did not have death on his mind when he halted on a piece of ground downstream from the military's Camp Collins in 1862. What he did...
This 1906 mystery cowboy landed in my hands at a flea market this weekend. I was coping with time not riding a horse during our April blizzard. Buffalo Bill? Wild Bill Hickok? Close, but not. If you blow up the name under the postcard's picture, it says "J.W....