CO GenWeb Project - Las Animas County CO - Las Animas County photos

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I have a 'personal' connection to Las Animas County and in particular, to Trinidad Colorado. If YOU have any photos of Las Animas County you would like to share, especially old ones (the older the better!!) then please let me know! (Clicking on each image will take you to a larger image for better viewing...)

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By 1848 the United States had acquired official title to the contiguous land stretching westward to the Pacific, south to the Rio Grande, and north to the 49th parallel. The West had long been explored and settled, however, the opportunity for legitimate land ownership along with other historic events caused a greater number of people to travel. The religious persecution of the Mormons had led them to begin their migration westward by this time. The discovery of gold would soon draw thousands more across the country.

This transition from a "wild" western frontier into organized segments of a federal union is documented in photographs. Private citizens and Government officials took the recently developed camera on their western adventures to record nature's curious sights and the marks that they made on the landscape. It is indeed a wonder that so many photographs have survived the hardships of the western experience, because early negatives were made of large glass plates.
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