Boggsville

The bronze names three men, and the land belonged to the women. The 1870 census lists Rumalda Luna Boggs, not her husband Thomas, as its owner, her claim running through a great-uncle's share of the Vigil and St. Vrain grant. Amache Ochinee Prowers, Southern Cheyenne, held 640 acres awarded after Sand Creek, where her father Ochinee was killed, and the Prowers herd grew onto them. The plaque went up with Mary Prowers Hudnall, Amache's daughter, whose history of the county had appeared the year before. Boggs left in 1877, his wife's title under challenge.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado Boggsville Established in 1866. Named for Thomas O. Boggs, first settler on this site. Home of Kit Carson and John W. Prowers, noted pioneers. Seat of Bent County, 1870. Site of first public school in southeastern Colorado. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado from the Mrs. J. N. Hall Foundation and by Mary Prowers Hudnall, citizens and school children of Las Animas May 3, 1946

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site — 12 mi
  A cornfield with foundations in it by the 1960s, rebuilt from an army lieutenant's 1845 drawings in 160,000 machine-made adobes for the Bicentennial.

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• Bent's New Fort — 25 mi