Baca County History

by the Plainsman Herald

Tag: Carriso

  • News from Baca County, July 16, 1898

    The news from the July 16, 1898 Springfield Herald is exactly 121 years ago, July 16, 1898. In 1898 the editor of the Springfield Herald was L. A Wikoff. There wasn’t a lot of local news.  Each week there was a weekly Crop report by F.H. Brandenburg out of Denver. They mention insurgents in Cuba…

  • 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 for Lamar. Almost all of the towns which popped up during that era had an advertisement that was placed in newspapers “back east” (usually Kansas) to encourage settlers to come west. This is…