Grandmother Eva Ratliff by Kathryn Ratliff Benes
With all of the news focused on COVID-19, I can’t help thinking about my Grandmother Eva Ratliff. As a young woman, she […]
Jack Ratliff by Kathryn Ratliff Benes
Editors Note: I’ve often mentioned Jack Ratliff as the other Baca County Wanderer when writing about Orville Ewing. If you search online […]
Poems of Faith (Post 1930s) by Nellie Grover Bamber
This 2nd post of Nellie Grover Bamber is again a true pleasure. There are some little things. The image of Grandma Bamber […]
Offices of the Prairie Cattle Company
“The largest herd of cattle I ever saw was in the summer of 1888. It stretched north from the mouth of Leon […]
Baca County & the Deep Harbor Conventions of the Late 1880s & Early 1890s
This piece provides an answer to a note in the upcoming Plainsman Herald Piece by Mark Schmidt on the first twelve years […]
Growing Up in Baca County Episode 6, Part 1 by John Havens
Note this episode references Fred Holister. More on Fred Click Here: Fred Holister: A Cowboy’s Story Many older people of the Vilas […]
An Al Jennings 1908 Silent Western, “The Bank Robbery”
I have mentioned several times the influence Old Boston, Colorado likely had on the early development of the western movie genre because […]
Tributary Towns
As a continuation of my look at Southeast Colorado Boom towns (1886-1889) I thought I would toss out an interesting town ad […]
Wilde, Colorado: Colonel York, the Bloody Benders, and West Point.
The town, Wilde, Colorado is not Baca County. It was technically in Old Bent county or what is now Prowers County just […]
THE OLD SETTLEMENT AND THE NEW SETTLEMENT OF BACA COUNTY: by Sam Konkel
Sam Konkel told us much about the first wave of settlement in the 1886-1887 time frame. In this article from the December 21 1917 issue of the Springfield Herald he offers some observations comparing that first wave with the second wave starting in 1907 Sam as always is entertaining with his writing. I will leave it at that and hand it off to that master wordsmith of early Baca County.