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List of corrals

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Cathedral Valley Corral, Utah
Remnant of Texas Trail Stone Corral, Nebraska

This is a list of notable corrals used to enclose horses and other livestock. In the American west, a number of historic corrals are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).[1] Among these are corrals used to trap or hold wild horses, corrals used to support cavalry, and corrals which otherwise supported usage of horses in ranching or other activities.

The Union Stock Yards in Chicago had 2,300 separate livestock pens, but probably no ones that were individually notable.

In 2019, a pen in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada, took in the last individual caribou which had migrated in and out of the contiguous United States.[2]

Notable corrals in the United States, past and present, include:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Karin Brulliard (March 29, 2019). "America's reindeer have quietly gone extinct in the Lower 48". Washington Post.
  3. ^ a b Anna Jean Taylor; Caleb Curren; Kenneth Breisch (September 30, 1983). New Mexican Pastor Sites in the Texas Panhandle (Report). National Park Service. (redacted as to most locations)
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