summer vacation 1948

The Indians that we saw at Garden of the Gods were not "from" there - that is from what I remember they were not local indians - those indians lived in pueblos south of Colorado. I remember that after we left the Sand Dunes, we visited their home pueblo - I do not know what the connection was...

Miss Kettle's house in Westcliffe Miss Kettle (one of my father's school teachers) had a house in Westcliffe. We went up Round Mountain, a small mountain in the valley, and looked for garnets. (I don't think we found any). From Round Mt. 1948 - Silver Cliff closest to us and the upstart...

My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet Mountains on the east and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (part of the Rockies) on the west. Wet Mountain Valley looking toward the Sangre de...