TRADITION LIVES IN SAN LUIS VALLEY ROOTS OF STATE'S OLDEST TOWNS RUN DEEP, TO SOUTH.(Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: November 16, 1999 | Copyright information

Byline: Dick Foster News Southern Bureau

SAN LUIS -- Journey from the Front Range deep into south-central Colorado and the region's towns and features take on a decidedly different look and feel.

Wood and brick give way to adobe. Main streets are replaced by town plazas. Little ranchos with small pastures and a few cattle, horses and goats supplant the sprawling ranches and farms of the plains.

Spanish is the mother tongue. Some who speak it trace t...

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