No Separate Refuge

Between 1900 and 1910, the community of coal-mine workers in Colorado more than doubled. Many New Mexicans, Hispanics and Anglos followed the establishment of mines. Las Animas County, Colorado was a small Hispanic village in the 1850s, but by the turn of the century the population quadrupled with only one-quarter being Hispanic (Deutsch 88). Large groups of immigrants, including Italians, Poles and Irish contributed to the rapidly changing population, one that according to Deutsch “threatened the integrity of the Hispanic communities” (89).

Hispanic farmers continued to comprise the regional community, but often these farmers would migrate to the mine communities in search of seasonal and/or higher paying work opportunities. The living space of Hispanics prior to the arrival of the Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI) Company was a homogenous community-oriented system. Adobe housing and a community-oriented plaza were hallmarks of the prior settlements before CFI moved in and basically took over community organization and control.

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