Winner of the
Carolyn Bancroft History Award
1999

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION
        Welcome to Volume 3.................................................................................................1
        A Visitor's Pagosa Remembrances...............................................................................3
        1905 Valedictory Address...........................................................................................5
        Losing Family Traditions..............................................................................................8
    School Days
        School Years: 1882 - 1894........................................................................................11
        Pagosa's Wandering Schoolhouses.............................................................................29
        Remembering Miss Ruby...........................................................................................38
        Upper Piedra School House......................................................................................41
        My Family's Education..............................................................................................45
        The Graduates Through 1933....................................................................................46
        Alice Ann Foertsch, Teacher Extraordinaire...............................................................49
    Founding Families
        Corrigan-Stevens......................................................................................................56
        The Decker Family...................................................................................................63
        Dollarhide................................................................................................................67
        Goodman.................................................................................................................68
        Hallett......................................................................................................................90
        Howe......................................................................................................................91
        Kleckner - Lemmon................................................................................................99
        Lieutenant Colonel William Henry Lewis.................................................................100
        Webb....................................................................................................................101
        Willett....................................................................................................................104
        Boone - Woolsey...................................................................................................109
    Special Features
        Pagosa Springs......................................................................................................112
        Pagosa School Houses 1903 - 1925......................................................................114
        Memories..............................................................................................................118
        Pagosa's New School House is a Wonder..............................................................119
        Index of Surnames.................................................................................................121
 
 

Cover photo: Mary Hayden and her
students, Blanco School House, 1910."

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