La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado History Colorado Publications Larimer County

Larimer County

Publication Date: April 29

Beetle kill pine wood can be used as a sustainable building material and was used in the construction of some of the ceilings at the the History Colorado Center in 2012

In Becoming Colorado

and the memories of how things were in happier moments fade

La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado History Colorado Publications Larimer CountyInformative and provocative, La Gente: Hispano History and Life in Colorado collects eleven essays by a cross section of Colorado scholars and writers. The book opens with an examination of Spanish Mexican exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Colorado region. Moving from exploration to biographical sketches, the book profiles the enigmatic Teresita Sandoval, cofounder of Pueblo; provides the turn of the century memoir of vaquero Elfido Lopez;