Forgotten Cuchareños of the Lower Valley By Virginia Sanchez
The History Press, Paperback, 191 pp $19.99
ISBN #1609491343
Reviewed by Annie Dawid
As a fiction writer, reading Virginia Sanchez’s book about the history of Hispano Southern Colorado made me wish I were writing a long-planned, much-delayed novel which takes place in the Huérfano Valley during the 20th century. Forgotten Cuchareños of the Lower Valley is a researcher’s dream of a book: appendices, maps, bibliographies, indices, timelines, excellent photographs of now-disappeared buildings, monuments, cultural artifacts.