HORSESPRINGS

NAME: HORSESPRINGS COUNTY: CATRON ROADS: 2WD GRID: 4 CLIMATE: DANDY BEST TIME TO VISIT: ANY TIME

COMMENTS: HORSE SPRINGS: Post office 1879/1882. REMAINS: A residence and ancient service station.

HORSE SPRINGS. Ranching community on NM 12, 26 mi SW of Datil. 1/2 mi E of the original Horse Springs, a very large spring. Named because some soldiers on the way to Ft. Tularosa from Socorro lost a horse and on the way back found it here.The horse was introduced into the Americas by the Spanish settlements to the south. Castaneda reports that "the most essential thing in new lands is horses. They instill the greatest fear in the enemy and make the Indians respect the leaders of the army" 'Narratives, 1540, 1542 (Albuquerque, 1940), p. 282. Place names using the Spanish word for horse may be found listed under Caballo.HORSE CAMP. Hidalgo County. HORSE CAMP, Chavez County. HORSE CREEK. Chavez County. Tributary of Pecos River, flowing in from NW. HORSEHEAD CANYON. McKinley County. HORSE LAKE, Grant county. 10 mi NW of Cliff. HORSE LAKE. Also called Northern Lake, 1 1/2 mi long, fed by underground springs. A sizeable lake of 600 or more acres, half on the icarilla Apache Indian Reservation, 20 mi W of Parkview. Many horses have been drowned in it during the winter months when snow is deep. They wander onto the lake to feed on the tall tules and fall through the ice.HORSE LAKE CREEK. Rio Arriba county. Flows SE from Horse lake to join Willow Creek, 3 mi NE of El Vado Reservoir. HORSE PEAK. Catron County. HORSESHOE LAKE. Colfax County. a 10 acre lake just below timber line at head of main East Fork of the Red River.HORSE THIEF CREEK. San Miguel County. Tributary of Panchuela Creek. Submitted by: Samuel W McWhorter

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