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Through exhaustive documentary research, Virginia Sanchez gives Spanish-speaking leaders their overdue credit for fighting for Hispano rights and contributing to the creation of Colorado. --William Convery, Colorado State Historian, 2008-2015 Useful, informative, and insightful. --David A. Sandoval, Colorado State University-Pueblo The overall contribution of Pleas and Petitions is a better understanding of the issues early Hispano settlers faced in Colorado and a great contribution to the historical development of southern Colorado as a place. --Journal of Historical Geography

"""An exciting addition to the historiography of territorial Colorado and to scholarship on the relationship between race, colonialism, and violence in the American West."" --Western Historical Quarterly ""A fantastic addition to Colorado history from an ethnic-centered perspective, and it contributes greatly to ongoing recovery projects."" --Southwestern Historical Quarterly ""Through exhaustive documentary research, Virginia Sanchez gives Spanish-speaking leaders their overdue credit for fighting for Hispano rights and contributing to the creation of Colorado."" --William Convery, Colorado State Historian, 2008-2015 ""Useful, informative, and insightful."" --David A. Sandoval, Colorado State University-Pueblo ""The overall contribution of Pleas and Petitions is a better understanding of the issues early Hispano settlers faced in Colorado and a great contribution to the historical development of southern Colorado as a place."" --Journal of Historical Geography"

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Virginia Sánchez is an independent scholar who has presented her research to the American Society for Ethnohistory, the New Mexico Historical Society, and genealogical societies in New Mexico and Colorado. She is the author of Forgotten Cuchareños of the Lower Valley and the winner of the 2011 Miles History Award from the Colorado Historical Society and the 2018 Gilberto Espinosa Prize for Best Article in the New Mexico Historical Review. Her work has been published in the New Mexico Historical Review and New Mexico Magazine.

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