The 1920s and 1930s brought many exciting and true adventures to the three Hazelwood brothers, Chester, Loren, and Melvin, on their family's ranch outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado.  They had many of the adventures of those earlier pioneers of the 1880s and 1890s.  There were Native Americans and mountain men, terrible snow storms and severe accidents, outlaws and crooked horse trader, and narrow escapes with locomotives.  Trapping brought in much of their hard cash and hunting and fishing supplied most of the family's food.  Boys on ranches had to grow up quickly in such an environment by necessity.  Quite often there were life and death decisions for them to make.

There are few books about Colorado's daily ranching life in the '20s and '30s, and even fewer books on ranching and other activities in early Pagosa 
Springs.  Therefore, you will find these stories that happened back then to be amazing!