Description
La Junta is a thriving little city in the heart of the beet sugar country known as the Arkansas Valley. It is a division point on the Santa Fe. Dated 11/10/09.
Front Text (verbatim):
SANTA FE AVENUE, LA JUNTA, COLO.
Back Text (verbatim):
LA JUNTA is a thriving little city in the
heart of the beet sugar country known as the
Arkansas Valley. It is a division point on the
Santa Fe. Here the main line of the railway
starts southward towards the great Southwest;
the diverging line runs to Pueblo, Colorado
Springs, and Denver.
Close to La Junta are several places interesting
in border history. The site of Bent's Fort, at
one time an important place, being a few miles
away. It was at one time in the center of a
vast buffalo range and around it Apaches,
Comanches, and Pawnees gathered and fought.
Altitude 4,061 feet. Population 3,000.
