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An Introductory Note

…first-person accounts of Rio Colorado [Questa] have been included to give a first-hand view of what life was like here over the years.

Front Matter From Our Hearts and Minds From the Record The Cycle of Birth, Life & Death Everyday Life in the 1920’s to 1940’s Appendix

Baptism

When a baby was taken to be baptized, the Padrinos of the baby would say to the parents of the baby after they came back

Vecinos on the Northern Frontier

Don Francisco Laforet (his last name has many spellings, including La Forett, Laforee, Laforey, and Laport) is said to have come to live in the

Preface & Acknowledgments

This project started quite appropriately over ditch business—Judy Cuddihy was installing a head gate and Esther Garcia, one of the ditch commissioners, came over to

A New Frontier

By 1840 San Antonio del Rio Colorado was well established and new settlers were continually arriving and more houses were being built all along the

Everyday Life in the 1920s to 1940s

Water was and is the basis of everyday life in this high mountain desert. Acequias were often built even before the houses or church in

The Spanish Entrada and Northern New Spain

The Colonial Period

Holidays

They had valerios for the dead and they would sing hymns called “Alavados.” Also velarios for the Santos. These alavados were a little different. When