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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29Q5_welcome-to-bent-county_Las-Animas-CO.html
This region was once buffalo hunting grounds for the Cheyenne, Apache, Arapaho, Kiowa and Comanche. Tribes followed the buffalo throughout the plains and controlled the land. During this time, everything south of the Arkansas river was Mexico and …
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The Arkansas River Valley is a historical frontier in both the American and European sense. Americans view the frontier as unsettled or a sparsely settled area lands on the edge of "civilization." To Europeans, frontiers are boundaries or borders …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29PJ_from-trail-to-town_Las-Animas-CO.html
"...On crossing the river [Purgatoire] we found a large well-filled ranch...which had only just been built by two enterprising Yankees.:" -William Bell, railroad surveyor, 1867 Boggsville was established in the early 1860s on the Mountain Rout…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290Y_boggsville_Las-Animas-CO.html
This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado — Boggsville Established in 1866. Named for Thomas O. Boggs, first settler on this site. Home of Kit Carson and John W. Prowers, noted pioneers. Seat of Bent County, 1870.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28VL_santa-fe-trail_Las-Animas-CO.html
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