What is "alamosa"

Usage examples of "alamosa".

Or you can go about seventy miles farther south down the front of the Rockies, then cut through the Sangre de Cristo range and pick up the Rio Grande del Norte around Alamosa and head northwest.

Canyon City is closer to the northern watershed of the Gunnison, but the Alamosa route takes lower passes.

He felt privileged to work in Alamosa, where numerous storekeepers spoke Spanish, and he began to think that Colorado was an even better place than New Mexico, until he became aware that many citizens of the small city cursed Mexicans, and accused them of all sorts of evil.

The sheriff in Alamosa arrested Mexicans for even the most trivial offenses, and judges sentenced them harshly and without the semblance of a trial.

She had a disposition like the clotted milk he ate in Alamosa, gentle, lambent, always the same.

He crossed the border in the last week of 1905, worked in Carrizozo a few days, then drifted up to Taos, then on to Alamosa, but when he reached there, he found that Mr.

He worked in Colorado for a while, in Alamosa, in the Legal Aid program up there.

For both, their bodies aching from last night's almost brutal sexual assault on each other, that drive to Alamosa the morning after was a cherished, nearly sacred moment.

During his father's last few years Joe had gone with him often up to Colorado, up to the auctions in Monte Vista and Alamosa and other towns in the San Luis Valley.

La Veta Pass was the natural escape route for anybody trying to get over the mountains from Walsenburg to Alamosa, and vice versa.

It ran west as far as Alamosa now, and much of our route by train ran parallel to it.

Now the end-of-the-line boys had moved to Alamosa, although a couple of dives still remains there.

The sun was shedding its rays down across the grey mesas and slopes from above the summit of the Amarillo Mountains, and as the soft morning breeze up the valley rustled the leaves of the Alamosa trees it cast a delicately shifting pattern of light and shadow on the girl's blue gingham dress, on her slim and rounded forearms and on the golden-tanned spot below her throat.

In a box she had each of the envelopes from the strange towns: Alamogordo, Carrizozo, Taos, Alamosa.

Extra units had already been put into service on all thruways through the Midwest and snow-burners were waging a losing battle from Wichita west to the Rockies around Alamosa, Colorado.