On the Edge of Purgatory

"Bonnie J. Clark offers a concise, dense, and richly textured account of daily life in the late-nineteenth-century Hispanic settlements of rural southeastern Colorado."—Kelly L. Jenks, Center for Colorado and the West

"History buffs in comfortable armchairs will enjoy learning about the activities of other historical societies around the state, like tiny Aguilar's south of Walsenburg. Not to mention the scholars who will welcome Bonnie J. Clark's On the Edge of Purgatory as a model for the serious study of people and places."—Virginia Simmons, Colorado Central Magazine

"A new and reinvigorated scholarship on the archaeology of nineteenth-century Hispanic Americans in the American Southwest is emerging, and On the Edge of Purgatory by Bonnie Clark is a significant contribution."—J. Andrew Darling, Journal of Anthropological Research