Karen Ballentine
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
The San Juan Prospector began publication in a log cabin in Del Norte in 1874. The population of Del Norte in the 1880s was only about 700 people but there was plenty of news: Six shooters, old bachelors and deadly original poetry are among San Juans leading evils. Baths have been reduced to twenty-five cents each at Montrose and no takers. The Durango cemetery is out of repair, the headboards [gravestones] down, and no corpse knows who his neighbor...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
This book is a compilation of newspaper stories from the 1884 issues of the Alamosa JOURNAL. Alamosa and the amazing Great Sand Dunes National Park are located in the San Luis Valley in South Central Colorado. The population of Alamosa at that time was only 802 but there was plenty going on: Railroading, mining, farming, an afternoon gunfight in the middle of downtown, men hiking over snow-covered mountains on snowshoes to deliver the mail, corrupt...