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Beatriz Truxillo Morgan Interview
Beatriz shares her story as the daughter of a coal miner. Growing up in the Purgatory River Valley west of Trinidad, she relates what day-to-day life was like in the small mining communities there, and how her father worked in the coal mines and as a cowpuncher 7.3min.

May 12, 2020
Battle of La Raza Park
Entry in August 1978 El Gallo newspaper detailing the continued police presence and harassment of community members at La Raza Park.

March 29, 2022
Bath time
A young Hispanic girl sits in a metal wash tub and is bathed by her mother in Costilla County, 1950

March 18, 2019
Barela’s house, 1890s
People pose on the porch of Senator Casimiro Barela’s house, probably in Barela (Las Animas County)

March 18, 2019
Barela’s extended family, 1912
Colorado State Senator Casimiro Barela, his wife Damiana Rivera de Barela, their daughters and grandchildren on the porch of their house (Rancho de Rivera) in Rivera (Las Animas County)

Barela’s country house, 1902
Colorado Senator Casimiro Barela’s country home in El Moro (Las Animas County)

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