Las Animas

Red Withers and I broke off two months before that, Henry.

Besides, he's gone to Los Animas.

There wasn't anybody else, huh?

No.

Well, you

got to think about what it means for the, of that part of the state too, the economy of that part of the state too, when it's like, it's in La Junta and, or kind of between La Junta and Los Animas.

I have to imagine it's a big draw when it comes to people traveling to that area.

There are some natural attractions out there.

In his book The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan opens his account of the era with one of the men making that wager.

Bam White was a cowboy traveling from Las Animas, Colorado, to West Texas in search of ranch work when he arrived in the Panhandle town of Dalhart in nineteen twenty-six.

He'd spent his life on horseback, working cattle in the open range.

But what he found instead was sharecropping, a major step down in prestige for a man of his trade, and a sign of what the country had become.