Hotel Cardenas

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Stock #:231335
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Trinidad
State: Colorado (CO)
County: Las Animas
Publisher: Fred Harvey
Postmark: 1909 Dec-3
Postmark City: West Las Vegas
Postmark State: NV
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Miss Lydia Dreyfus
336 Lefleur
Buffalo, NY
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The Cardenas at Trinidad, built of stone and concrete in the impressive style of the Old California Missions. It is named after Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, a captain in Coronado's army, which ____ Mexico in 1540 on his expedition of conquest. It is said that Cardenas is the first white man to behold the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. Trinidad is the largest wool and hide shipping point in Colorado. It is the center of immense coal, coke and iron industries. At Trinidad begins the ascent of the Raton Pass

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