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Sources for the Espinosa articles

Sidebar by Charles F. Price

History – November 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine

Books:

Dyer, J.L., The Snow-Shoe Itinerant, Cranston & Stowe, 1890 (Reprint).

Malkoski, Paul A., ed., This Soldier Life: The Diaries of Romine H. Ostrander, 1863 and 1865, Colorado Territory, Colorado Historical Society, 2006

Noel, Thomas J.; Paul F. Mahoney; Richard E. Stevens, Historical Atlas of Colorado, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993

Perkins, James E., Tom Tobin: Frontiersman, Herodotus Press, 1999.

Simmons, Virginia McConnell, The San Luis Valley: Land of the Six-Armed Cross, Second Edition, University Press of Colorado, 1999.

—————-, The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, University Press of Colorado, 2000.

—————-, Bayou Salado: The Story of South Park, Revised Edition,

University Press of Colorado, 2002.

Weigle, Marta, Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood: The Penitentes of the Southwest, Ancient City Press, 1976.

Articles:

Hodge, Betty L., “Fort Garland: A Window onto Southwest History,” The San Luis Valley Historian, Vol. XXIV No. 2, 1992.

Secrest, Clark, “The Bloody Espinosas: Avenging Angels of the Conejos,” Colorado Heritage, Autumn, 2000.

Priest, Henry, as told to Elsie, Keeton, “The Story of Dead Man’s Canyon and of the Espinosas,” The Colorado Magazine. Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1931, The Historical Society of Colorado.

Tobin, Thomas T., “The Capture of the Espinosas,” The Colorado Magazine, Vol. IX, No. 2, 1932, The Historical Society of Colorado.

Collections:

E.W. Eaton Papers, Fray Angélico Chàvez History Library, The New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM.

U.S. Marshal’s Files, Records of the U.S. District Court for the Third District of Colorado, National Archives and Records Administration, Rocky Mountain Division, Denver, CO.

Newspapers:

The Alaska Citizen, Fairbanks, May 8, 1911.

The Albuquerque Tribune, November 27, 1938.

The Colorado Weekly Commonwealth and Republican, May 7-May 28; July 2,; and October 28, 1863.

The Fairplay Flume, February 9, 1908.

The Rocky Mountain Weekly News, February-May, 1863 and February 11, 1872.

Individuals:

Ruth E. Price; Mike and Colleen Perschbacher; Ray Perschbacher; Rick Manzanares, director, Fort Garland Museum; Wanda Edwards, Collections Manager, Palace of the Governors, The New Mexico History Museum, and Tomas Jaehn, Fray Angélico Chàvez History Library, Palace of the Governors; Jane Gilsinger, archivist, Park County, CO archives; Eric Bittner, archivist, National Archives and Records Administration, Rocky Mountain Division; Ed Sheary, director, Asheville-Buncombe Public Library System, NC; and Sherry Roan Ellis, Interlibrary Loan Librarian, Buncombe County Public Libraries, NC.