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A Little History from Our Neighbors to the South and East By Kent Brooks Our Baca County neighbors have some interesting stories of their own, and fairly often, my research takes me across the state line. This particular story came about while I was researching The Man with Two Reputations, my book about the regulator…
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By Kent Brooks As German troops crossed into Austria, a Baca County man set out for San Francisco behind a team of oxen. On Friday, March 11, 1938, two very different stories were unfolding thousands of miles apart. In Europe, Adolf Hitler was preparing to send German troops across the Austrian border, setting in motion…
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A Little History from Our Neighbors to the South and East By Kent Brooks Our Baca County neighbors have some interesting stories of their own, and fairly often, my research takes me across the state line. This particular story came about while I was researching The Man with Two Reputations, my book about the regulator…
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By Kent Brooks As German troops crossed into Austria, a Baca County man set out for San Francisco behind a team of oxen. On Friday, March 11, 1938, two very different stories were unfolding thousands of miles apart. In Europe, Adolf Hitler was preparing to send German troops across the Austrian border, setting in motion…
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In 1888, while the little town of Boston was fighting for survival on the southeastern Colorado plains, newspaperman and town booster Sam Konkel chose a confident motto for his Western World: “Railroads A Moral Certainty.” There was considerably more certainty than railroad. For the founders of Boston and the other boomtowns scattered across southeastern Colorado…
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Baca County has always been farm country, and in the fall of 1931 Springfield was talking about a rather unusual harvest. It wasn’t wheat, broomcorn or feed. This time the crop was tonsils and adenoids, and before it was over, some 400 people had reportedly undergone operations at a free clinic in Springfield. The story…
