Page 7 of 34
Video Clip from Interview with Jerald Renner, Mike Romero, and Thomas Hay, Mining
Renner, Romero, and Hay talk about working in the Trinidad Coal Mines, the kind of jobs one did, and all the responsibilities they had. 2018. Length: 1:52.
June 18, 2019
Video Clip from Interview with Mayor Garduno, Mining
Mayor Garduno talks about how mining was in Trinidad and how it began to decline in this 2018 interview. Length: 00:39.
Casimiro Barela and his wife, around 1885
Damiana Rivera de Barela and State Representative Casimiro Barela
Casimiro Barela as Sheriff of Los Animas County, 1875
He later became the longest-serving member of the Colorado legislature (1875-1916)
Blacksmith Hilario Herminio Paiz of Gurule, 1915
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.
Page 7 of 34