Before Red River City: The Founding Families of San Antonio del Rio Colorado
Long before prospectors named a mining camp Red River City, another community was already putting down roots on the same river, down the canyon where the water leaves the high country. Did you know that the Red River itself gave that first settlement its name? Rio Colorado is Spanish for Red River, and the families who built San Antonio del Rio Colorado, the village we know today as Questa, were farming and herding sheep along its banks a full generation before the gold rush remade the valley upstream.
