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In this sparkling new edition of The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross, Virginia McConnell Simmons lays before the reader the stories and voices of this multicultural land. Ranging from prehistoric peoples and historic Indians to early Spanish settlers, trappers, American explorers, railroads, and Euro-American pioneers, this book is a comprehensive volume covering the geography and social history of Colorados San Luis Valley.

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title The San Luis Valley Land of the Six-armed Cross author - photo 1

title:The San Luis Valley : Land of the Six-armed Cross
author:Simmons, Virginia McConnell.
publisher:University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin:087081530X
print isbn13:9780870815300
ebook isbn13:9780585048420
language:English
subjectSan Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)--History, San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)--Geography.
publication date:1999
lcc:F782.S2S56 1999eb
ddc:978.8/33
subject:San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)--History, San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)--Geography.
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The San Luis Valley
Land of the Six-Armed Cross, Second Edition
Virginia McConnell Simmons
University Press of Colorado
Page iv 1999 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the - photo 2
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1999 by the University Press of Colorado
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849
Niwot, Colorado 80544
All rights reserved. First edition 1979
Second edition 1999
Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Simmons, Virginia McConnell, 1928
The San Luis Valley : land of the six-armed cross / Virginia
McConnell Simmons. 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87081-530-X (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. San Luis Valley (Colo. and N.M.)History. 2. San Luis Valley
(Colo. and N.M.)Geography. I. Title.
F782.S2S56 1999
978.8'33dc21Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 699-11379
Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12CIP
Credits
Front cover: Fred F. Haberlein
Archival photographs are from the collections of the Colorado Historical Society unless otherwise noted. Prints of sketches are from Heap, Central Route to the Pacific; United States Pacific Railway Explorations and Surveys, 38th and 39th Parallels; Darley, Passionists of the Southwest; and the Denver Journal of Commerce.
The map of the Sangre de Cristo Grant is from the collections of the Colorado Historical Society. The two original maps showing geography of the San Luis Valley are by George C. Simmons.
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Contents
Foreword by David Fridtjof Halaas
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Chapter I A Most Beautiful Inland Prospect
3
Chapter II When the Sun Stands Still
13
Picture 13
Chapter III Those Who Are Considered Subjects of the King
21
Chapter IV Refreshing My French Grammar and Overseeing the Works
33
Chapter V In the Nibor Hood of Touse
43
Chapter VI Mule Tail Soup, Baked White Mule, and Boiled Gray Mule
55
Chapter VII More Mule Meat
65
Chapter VIII In Voices of Gladness
77
Chapter IX A Matter of Grace
111
Chapter X Do You Want to Work for Wages or the First Day's Brandings?
125
Chapter XI Bring Their Heads
141
Chapter XII I Had a Dream
153
Chapter XIII ThirtySix Saloons and Seven DanceHalls
175
Chapter XIV Significant Little Evidences of Refinement
193
Chapter XV Manassa Was Strong on Religion
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