Comments on: Yippee ki yi yay, Mr. and Mrs. Stoltzfus! Hope you like cactus farming. http://www.historiann.com/2009/06/07/yippee-ki-yi-yay-mr-and-mrs-stoltzfus-hope-you-like-cactus-farming/ History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Geoff http://www.historiann.com/2009/06/07/yippee-ki-yi-yay-mr-and-mrs-stoltzfus-hope-you-like-cactus-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-330759 Geoff Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:17:17 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=5655#comment-330759 I spent two summers living in the San Luis Valley, and it is an enchanting place -- the summers are gorgeous, the views to the Sangre de Cristos are singular. While the east side of the valley is dry, there is a long history of agriculture on the west side of the valley, primarily potatoes and alfalfa I think. Baa Ram U has an ag research station there. The earliest Spanish settlements go back at least two centuries. Settlers were dependent on what agriculture they could raise along with game from the mountains to make it through the winters. Devout Catholics and Mormons have a long history in the valley, and I can understand the lure for the Amish. Culturally, the southern part of the valley is an extension of New Mexico - Taos isn't far from the Colorado border. Good memories, thanks for the link. I spent two summers living in the San Luis Valley, and it is an enchanting place — the summers are gorgeous, the views to the Sangre de Cristos are singular. While the east side of the valley is dry, there is a long history of agriculture on the west side of the valley, primarily potatoes and alfalfa I think. Baa Ram U has an ag research station there. The earliest Spanish settlements go back at least two centuries. Settlers were dependent on what agriculture they could raise along with game from the mountains to make it through the winters. Devout Catholics and Mormons have a long history in the valley, and I can understand the lure for the Amish. Culturally, the southern part of the valley is an extension of New Mexico – Taos isn’t far from the Colorado border.

Good memories, thanks for the link.

]]> By: Indyanna http://www.historiann.com/2009/06/07/yippee-ki-yi-yay-mr-and-mrs-stoltzfus-hope-you-like-cactus-farming/comment-page-1/#comment-329791 Indyanna Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:01:05 +0000 http://www.historiann.com/?p=5655#comment-329791 Well see you and raise you two, Historiann. Western PA is still increasing its Amish population, if only slightly, via migration from what is still the original hearth east of the Susquehanna River. There might even be some backdrift from Ohio and Indiana, which were early secondary sites of internal migration. Water we/ve got lots of, albeit some of it affected by coal mine seepage, and much or all of it by acid rain fallout. We have all these ominous looking fossil fuel burning electric plants with cooling towers that seem to say Three Mile Island. A scary thing to me would be mixing traffic streams on the highways out there between horse propelled conveyances and motorized with the more hammer down driving styles in the West, though much of that may be just mythos I suppose. John Nichols Milagro Beanfield War, set in New Mexico, does some interesting things with water rights issues. Well see you and raise you two, Historiann. Western PA is still increasing its Amish population, if only slightly, via migration from what is still the original hearth east of the Susquehanna River. There might even be some backdrift from Ohio and Indiana, which were early secondary sites of internal migration. Water we/ve got lots of, albeit some of it affected by coal mine seepage, and much or all of it by acid rain fallout. We have all these ominous looking fossil fuel burning electric plants with cooling towers that seem to say Three Mile Island.

A scary thing to me would be mixing traffic streams on the highways out there between horse propelled conveyances and motorized with the more hammer down driving styles in the West, though much of that may be just mythos I suppose.

John Nichols Milagro Beanfield War, set in New Mexico, does some interesting things with water rights issues.

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