by Jan MacKell Collins Most history buffs have heard of George McJunkin, the former slave from Texas who discovered the much heralded “Folsom Fossils” in New Mexico during the 1930s. There was another McJunkin family however, distant cousins to the Texas family who eventually gave George his freedom. This branch of the family made history in their own right. Among other achievements, farmer and horse breeder Robert Henry McJunkin was the first Anglo settler to bring draft horses to the San Luis Valley of Colorado. McJunkin was already 48 years old when he came to the expansive valley in 1889. ...