And the West is History: Friends on outing in Rockwood – ca. 1899

Taken before 1900, this photo shows the Buchanan sisters, Ruby Fry and Nettie Grabowsky, with their husbands and friends on a day trip near Rockwood. Daughters of Hermosa orchardist, Andrew Buchanan, they are the two women on horseback holding bottles. The Buchanans were early settlers and a prominent La Plata County family at the turn of the century. This is one of 220 photographs that will appear in the soon-to-be published “Images of America – La Plata County.” – Ed Horvat for Animas Museum, edhorvat@animasmuseum.org (Catalog Number: 13.33.12 from the La Plata County Historical Society Photo Collections)