Southwest Colorado at the beginning of the 20th century was frontier territory, the last of the wild west. Native populations were replaced by prospectors, cowboys and lumberjacks. Homesteaders were warned away from the area by the government, the land was a desert, too dry for farming, too wild for families.In 1927, Bessie White’s family lost their Kansas farm to a tax sale and were forced to flee to Canada to find work. Desperate to return to...