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An account of frontier Pagosa Springs
The first post office in the Chromo area was called “Price” and was probably located about a half mile east of the present store on the county road, which follows…
Early Pagosans with interesting histories
Barzillai Price and Martha Butler married in Lincoln County, Ohio. The couple moved to Little Sioux, Iowa, in the 1860s, then to Hebron, Neb. Barzillai was the first judge of…
The Pereas: a longtime Pagosa Country family
Pedro “Pete” Perea was born July 1, 1895, in Edith, Colo. He died Oct. 27, 1975. Sequiel L. “Zeke” Perea was born Nov. 17, 1901, at Edith. He was a…
The Arlington becomes a destination landmark
Julius Bryce Patterson was born at Hayesville, N.C., Dec. 29, 1853, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Patterson. The family moved to Colorado, arriving in Denver May 5, 1871.…
Milk, green apples and a dead man
Josephine Victoria Bennett Pargin was born to John B. and Anna Henry Bennett in Mitchell, S.D., March 12, 1877. Her father was the first telegraph operator at the Ignacio Indian…
Pagosa’s early settlers, from far and wide
Friederike Neumeuister, Mrs. Asa Pangborn, was born in Hamburg, Germany, May 11, 1844. She died in Del Norte, Colo., June 21, 1929, at the age of 85 years. At the…
Daisy witnesses a shooting in Pagosa Springs
Catherine Young Opdycke was born Jan. 22, 1826, and died in May of 1920 in Pagosa Springs. In 1843, she moved to the home of a sister in Knox County,…
The trail from Texas to Pagosa Country
We’ve been writing about the 1875/1876 journey of several families from Erath County, Texas, to Pagosa Country. The epic journey was made while driving a herd of longhorn cattle along…
The O’Neals: From Texas to New Mexico, to Pagosa Country
Last week we wrote about Fount and James O’Neal, born in Texas, but participants in a story-book journey ending in Colorado’s San Juan Basin in 1876. The O’Neal story has…
Nossaman, O’Neal, Oliver — history in a name
Dr. A. J. Nossaman was one of 13 children born to Wellington and Sarah Nossaman in Pella, Iowa. Several of the Nossaman children moved to the San Juans at an…
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