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COLUMN ONE : This Land 'Belonged to All of Us' : A timber baron shut out descendants of Colorado's Mexican settlers from the mountains they loved. Now, the state is trying to turn the area into a park and preserve an endangered heritage.

November 17, 1993 | LOUIS SAHAGUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

In 1960--a year bitterly remembered in this southeastern Colorado farming community--North Carolina timber baron Jack T. Taylor bought a 77,500-acre tract in the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains, fenced it and hired gunmen to keep local residents out. To the Latino subsistence farmers and ranchers of the San Luis Valley, it was an assault on their traditions, their culture, on the survival of their very community.

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COLUMN ONE : This Land 'Belonged to All of Us' : A timber baron shut out descendants of Colorado's Mexican settlers from the mountains they loved. Now, the state is trying to turn the area into a park and preserve an endangered heritage.

November 17, 1993 | LOUIS SAHAGUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

In 1960--a year bitterly remembered in this southeastern Colorado farming community--North Carolina timber baron Jack T. Taylor bought a 77,500-acre tract in the nearby Sangre de Cristo Mountains, fenced it and hired gunmen to keep local residents out. To the Latino subsistence farmers and ranchers of the San Luis Valley, it was an assault on their traditions, their culture, on the survival of their very community.

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