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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…
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The years 1934 and 1935 were arguably about as tough as the Dust Bowl ever got in Baca County. The country was dry, crops were failing, dirt was moving and times were already plenty hard without Mother Nature piling on. Yet buried in the newspapers from those two years is a curious part of the…
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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…
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The years 1934 and 1935 were arguably about as tough as the Dust Bowl ever got in Baca County. The country was dry, crops were failing, dirt was moving and times were already plenty hard without Mother Nature piling on. Yet buried in the newspapers from those two years is a curious part of the…
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Baca County History Book – VOLUME II While manning our booth at the fair, Steve Doner and I discovered how difficult it is to persuade people to submit their stories for Volume II of the Baca County History Book. We heard every excuse imaginable from “I can’t write” to “No one wants to hear about…
