Colorado Voices: Cheap Land Part I

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Misleading land deals define Costilla County in a history of resource speculation going back to the area’s second wave of settlement. In 1864, Governor William Gilpin purchased the once million-acre Mexican land grant as property of the United States and sectioned it off as the area’s first subdivided estates. The resulting clashes from commodification of natural resource systems remain some of the area’s longest and strongest battles.

Colorado Voices: Cheap Land Part II premiers Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. Watch at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju0IuyxDnxk

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Видео Colorado Voices: Cheap Land Part I канала Rocky Mountain PBS