The James Wild Horse Trap in

Nye County, Nevada Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At , Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behi ...

, near Fish Springs, is a historic site that is listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

. It was the location of a corral and fences used to capture wild horses, built out of dead

Juniper Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Juniperus'' () of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on the taxonomy, between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arcti ...

trees. It is as described in a book by Will James, ''Sand'', or ''Lone Cowboy'', published by Charles Scribners Son's in 1930. and It is significant, according to its 1973 NRHP nomination, "because of its obvious visual education ability. The current interest in wild horse protection and management increases the interest to the public to see what was used when running, killing and harassing wild horses was a common accepted practice. This is a visual evidence of a change in human/social values." A area including the wing fences and corral was listed on the

in 1974.

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Corrals National Register of Historic Places in Nye County, Nevada Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada {{Nevada-NRHP-stub

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