Wild Horse Schoolhouse - HDR {Explored 4/8/17}

            Wild Horse, CO, was established in 1869, when a detachment from the local US Army calvary came across  hundreds of wild horses gathered at a watering hole.  
The Kansas Pacific extended a railway line through the area and from 1869 through 1906, Wild Horse was just a station.  The boom for the town came in 1906 and the town peaked by about 1911.  Wild Horse boasted a drug store, two restaurants, three saloons(though one only lasted a week), two cream stations, a barber shop, and more.  The Wild Horse Times was the town newspaper, and in 1912, the schoolhouse was built. The local bank, the Alfalfa Valley Bank, called Wild Horse "the best little town in the west." But bad fortune was quick to befall the town.  A series of fires soon hit Wild Horse, and in 1917, a big fire erupted from a toppled stove in one of the cream stations, and almost the entire eastern half(which also happened to be the business side) of the town was destroyed.  Residents tried to rebuild, but with the Great Depression and "dirty thirties," many residents left to find greener pastures. 
Today, not much remains of the town.  Blink and you'll miss it driving by on the highway.  The original school house still stand, in great condition, and a few buildings and houses are scattered around the land.  A few people still call this town home, but it will never return to the glory days it once enjoyed.
   

Taken on: March 25, 2017

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Camera: Canon EOS 80D, f/8.0, 1/3200 sec, 57mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 80D
Lens:	17-70mm
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	1/3200 sec
Focal Length:	57mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-5/3 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.8 (Macintosh)
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