Colorado County Trivia - Las Animas

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Clue	Answer
County seat and biggest town	Trinidad
Primary river	Purgatoire
River of which the previous answer is a tributary	Arkansas
Interstate highway	I-25
State bordering the county to the south	New Mexico
Mountain pass along that border	Ratón Pass
Colorado governor who tried to block that mountain pass in 1936 to prevent migration from that state	Edwin Johnson
19th-century trade route connecting Missouri to New Mexico; now the approximate route of U.S. Highway 350	Santa Fe Trail
North America's largest track site from this kind of animal can be found in Las Animas County	Dinosaurs
Newspaper job held by Ina Eloise Young, the first American woman in that position	Sports editor

Clue	Answer
Named for a Native American nation indigenous to the area	Comanche National Grassland
Primary reservoir; named after #1	Trinidad Lake State Park
One of Colorado's newest state parks	Fishers Peak State Park
Pair of prominent mountains; the county's highpoint	Spanish Peaks (Huajatolla)
Hippie artists' community established in 1965	Drop City
Site of a 1914 massacre of striking workers by the Colorado National Guard	Ludlow
Industry in which those workers were employed	Coal
Financier owner of Colorado Fuel & Iron, the company behind the massacre	John D. Rockefeller Jr.