Architecture And Art Of Early Hispanic Colorado; Author: Adams, Robert; Author: Photographer Adams, Robert; Paperback

Author: Adams, Robert; Author: Photographer Adams, Robert
Paperback; Illustrations, Map
234 pages
Published: December 1998
Colorado University Press
ISBN: 0870814648
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Winner of the Western Heritage Wrangler Award, The Architecture and Art of Early Hispanic Colorado is the first extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on the late Colorado frontier. Because most of the villages where the author found his subjects are now either abandoned or being transformed by developers, the book is likely to stand as the only full visual record of what SpanishAmericans along the southern border of the state once produced.Accompanying the eighty-five full page photographs is a text that briefly outlines the history of pioneer immigration from New Mexico, and describes the way adobe buildings were constructed and other artifacts made.Documents the buildings and other constructions, tools, grave markers, religious symbols, and household items of 19th-century Spanish- American settlers with 85 full-page, black-and-white photographs and essays on the history of pioneer immigration and the methods by which the adobe buildings and ot