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Another Time in This Place

Historia, Cultura y Vida en Questa, New Mexico, USA

Tessie Rael de Ortega and Judith Cuddihy

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

The 20th Century Comes to Questa

Our story now becomes less detailed. The end of the Indian raids and of the gold rush changed life in Questa to a more cyclical

Questa area timeline

Questa area timeline. 300 million years ago Area covered by shallow ocean 36–25 million years ago Sangre de Cristo Mountains formed, Rio Grande Riftbegins to

The Indian Threat Ends

For almost a century, settlers in Rio Colorado had been subjected to the raids of Indian tribes. By the end of the 1870s, these raids

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

Before the Spanish Entrada

Evidence of Clovis, Folsom, and Oshara/ Upper Rio Grande Cultures in Questa Area

The Founders of Questa, by J.P. Rael

J.P. Rael’s poem Los Pobladores de Questa (The Founders of Questa) is probably the first written history of Questa.

The Railroad Comes to Northern New Mexico

The 1870s brought more surveyors for the railroad that would come eventually through just north of Rio Colorado. By 1876, rail for the narrow-gauge Denver