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Vol. 139 No. 11 2025 09 10Download To access this post, you must purchase Full Access.
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Baca County History Reprint—Project Update If you’ve ever turned a page and seen a face hidden behind scanner streaks, you know why this matters. As part of the reprint, we’ve been repairing photographs that didn’t survive the first round of digitizing—images with horizontal lines, blotchy blacks, and other scan glitches that obscured the very people…
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In January 1939, Pritchett, Colorado residents, Frank and Theresa Mauler had saved $500 and headed out of the Dust Bowl for the Sudetenland. Wire services made them famous; world events stopped the trip. Baca County’s Dust Bowl years were never as isolated as they felt. In January 1939, Frank and Theresa Mauler of Pritchett packed…
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I am often amazed by the historical connections to Baca County which have bubbled to the surface because of our digital world. When I discover a single name on a news clipping I have learned it isn’t always just a name. A single name can lead us down a path to a better understanding of …
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Recently the Herald had the opportunity to visit the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado and talk with its founder and executive director, Pat Craig. He showed us some of their habitats, talked about the animals they have living there, and explained how and why they do what they do. Some of the Sanctuary’s big…
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As we come upon the Thanksgiving holiday, and as with everything in the society we are livin’ in, I can hear the distant rumble of controversy. Now I’m not wantin’ to get in the middle of this controversy. It’s your choice whether you celebrate or not. I will say, we here at Three Feathers choose to…
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In German, a Tannenbaum is a fir tree that is decorated every Christmas season to help celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah to the Jews and Gentiles. It is also the title of a song translated into English: “O Christmas tree”. It was published in 1824 by Ernst Anschutz. He was…
