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An image of the Ranchland Farm Newspaper building on the corner of Sioux Avenue and Buffalo Street in Simla, Colorado. In the top right of the image, "09-3-1971" is handwritten.

Colorful postcard sold by Simla Drug Dealer with pictures of the Arkansas river

Don was a founding member of the Simla Historical Society, which began in 2012 at the Simla Library. As a founder and lifelong resident of the Simla area, he helped the society record his oral history back in 2013. Don lived from 1931 to 2019. We…

Moody the Peddler selling goods somewhere in the Simla area of Elbert County, Colorado at the beginning of the 20th century.

A photograph of the Town of Simla, taken from the air northeast of town. The lower part of the picture also show the Big Sandy River.

An image of a coal mine one and a quarter mile north of the unincorporated town of Fondis in the early 20th century.

An image of a grocery and meat store in Simla, Colorado in the mid-twentieth century.

An image of the postal wagon serving the areas surrounding Ramah, Colorado in the late 1800s to early 1900s.

An image of Jesse Tripp entering his home in southern rural Elbert County, Colorado, courtesy of his grandson Rolla Cusick.

An image of the Tripp family outside their homestead of southern Elbert County in the late 19th to early 20th century, courtesy of great grandson Rolla Cusick.