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Walsenburg 1893: Miss Virginia Hendren is home for Christmas with her parents. She has been teaching the Cucharas school which is provided free of rent

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Christmas long past

by Nancy Christofferson LA VETA —  Christmas is and has always been, apparently, observed in many ways. A big difference can be seen between the celebrations of

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This Week in History

by Nancy Christofferson   Walsenburg 1867: Daniel Hayden purchased land along the Huerfano River on which he will build a grist mill. 1882: John Furphy, the

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1941: 50 years of change

by Nancy Christofferson LAS ANIMAS COUNTY—  Fifty years after Frank Hall published his 1891 History of Colorado in four volumes, another compendium of diverse information on

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