Trinidad & Las Animas County

To be sung to the tune of “Marching through Georgia,” Trinidad Library History Room

To be sung to the tune of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” Trinidad Library History Room

Blacksmith Hilario Herminio Paiz (on left) poses outside of a wood building on his ranch in Gulnare, Las Animas County. He was born in 1898 in Gulnare and died in 1983 in Trinidad, Colorado. Herman worked on a ranch in Gulnare homesteaded by his grandfather José de la Cruz Paiz. Herman never married, and stayed at the ranch to take care of his mother, Anastacia Gonzales Paiz.

He later became the longest-serving member of the Colorado legislature (1875-1916)

María Salomé Córdova sits in a chair and spins wool into yarn in her yard in Hoehne (Las Animas County)

To be sung to the tune of “Coming through the Rye,” Trinidad Library History Room