LEGEND OF THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS EXPLAINED

https://www.ridenexttothedriver.com/historysangredecristo ^ | J. F. Dawson Publishing Company, 1954. | Works Cited Dawson, J. Frank.

[kawhill]

According to tradition, “Sangre de Cristo”, which means “Blood of Christ” in Spanish, were the supposed last words uttered by a dying priest. Despite the legend, history suggests the name originated from a much more practical beginning: an expedition.

[mairdie]

I’ve been gathering together my grandfather’s newspaper articles. I’m near to transferring them to an Amazon book but, until I do, I have the book up as a webpage. Grandfather was fascinated by those new fangled airmail planes and used to stand out at the local airport to watch the pilots come and go, then write their stories - the music the wires made in flight, the horrible experience of flying thru a flock of birds, the reaction of people at the airport to the sight of an airplane standing still in the air as it couldn’t make headway because of the winds it was flying into.

He was a rare earths prospector who won and lost fortunes from Alaska down to Central America, and I find him the most fun read. He frequently took side jobs as deputy sheriff so also had a lot of crime stories.

[Colorado Doug]

It sounds like your Grandfather was a fascinating fellow.

[mairdie]

My father never even knew his father was alive after his mother left his father when he was 5 years old. Jack Bell is way too common of a name around Denver. So he thought a newspaper story of the death of a resort owner named Jack Bell was his father being shot to death and that’s what father recorded in his army records. Jack Bell WAS almost shot to death in a gun battle in the bottom of a silver mine, but that’s another story. They died within a couple years of one another. Truly sad.