Afterword
I wrote Voices on the Prairie in the late sixties. "Over-wrote" would be a better way to put it. After I finished I put the manuscript away with several dozen 8 by 10 prints that were supposed to go with it. In late August of 2002 I ran across the manuscript again and decided to revive it. Now that it's possible with desktop publishing actually to combine prints and text on a page I dummied up a version of the little book I'd envisioned way back then.
RSL, August 21, 2002
In April 2004 I added the little book to this web page.
The Photographs
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An abandoned and destroyed church at Morley, Colorado, a deserted coal mining town in Raton Pass.
I think this was Colorado 71, somewhere between Limon and Ordway.
Spruce Mountain Road behind Greenland, Colorado. This old road used to be the main highway between Denver and Colorado Springs.
The old highway between Denver and Colorado Springs as it passes through the Air Force Academy. Superceded now by the freeway (I 25) just to the east of it.
Somewhere in Colorado.
An old hotel at Cimarron, New Mexico. A couple years later when I drove past here, everything was gone.
Somewhere in New Mexico.
Somewhere in New Mexico.
Somewhere on the Colorado prairie..
Somewhere on the Colorado prairie..
New Mexico, I think.
New Mexico, I think.
New Mexico.
On the Colorado prairie.
The old general store at Greenland, Colorado. It's gone now.
Ridgeway, Colorado.
Somewhere on the Colorado prairie.
Somewhere on the Colorado prairie.
About ten miles south of Colorado Springs on a bitter winter day in the sixties. This little place is gone now.