Living life well: Revisiting This Place & These People
By Jim Shere At first it was mostly the men— the padres and their soldiers— who came to claim the land and all its people for Mexico, which had just won its war of independence from Spain. And then the other men came with their vaqueros to claim the land as theirs, pioneers filling the valley with vast cattle ranches. And then in time the settlers, men and women, arrived …
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