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Author Clark, Bonnie J.

Title On the Edge of Purgatory : an Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado.

Publication Info. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, 2012.
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Description 1 online resource (176 pages)
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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Finding Purgatory; 1. Hispanic Colorado; 2. Inhabiting the Lower Purgatory; 3. Making a Living and a Life; 4. Plazas and Community; 5. Lessons from the Landscape; Conclusion: The Archaeology of Places; References Cited; Index.
Summary Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s, the region was U.S. territory, but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. They had a complex history of interaction with indigenous populations in the area and adopted many of the indigenous methods of survival in this difficult environment. Today their descendants compose a vocal part of the Hispanic population of Colorado. Bonnie J. Clark investigates the unwritten history of this unique Hispanic population. Combining archaeological research, contemporary ethno.
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Subject Hispanic Americans -- Colorado -- Antiquities.
Hispanic Americans.
Colorado.
Antiquities.
Hispanic Americans -- Colorado -- History.
History.
Hispanic Americans -- Colorado -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Archaeology and history -- Colorado.
Archaeology and history.
Ethnoarchaeology -- Colorado.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Colorado -- Antiquities.
Colorado -- History, Local.
Local history.
Colorado -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Local history.
Other Form: Print version: Clark, Bonnie J. On the Edge of Purgatory : An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, ©2012
ISBN 9780803262751 (electronic book)
0803262752 (electronic book)

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