Tag: Southeast Colorado
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Vol. 140 No. 11 2026 09 11 To access this post, you must purchase Full Access.
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Vol. 140 No. 10 2026 09 04 To access this post, you must purchase Full Access.
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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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The arrival of the railroad in Baca County in 1926 changed the possibilities for the county’s growing broomcorn industry. Distance had long been one of the greatest obstacles facing farmers on the isolated southeastern Colorado plains. Broomcorn might command a good price in distant markets, but getting bulky bales to those markets was another matter.…
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Vol. 140 No. 9 2026 08 28 Singles To access this post, you must purchase Full Access.
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Vol. 140 No. 8 2026 08 21 To access this post, you must purchase Full Access.
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The Life and Legacy of Cowboy Fred Holister By Kent Brooks Great journeys into the past starts with a single question. For this story that question came a few years back (maybe 2015 or 2016) during a visit with my Uncle Harold Brooks. As we sat talking about the old stories and forgotten histories of…
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