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A Note on Terms

River of Lost Souls, or Rio de las Animas Perdidas: As you read the text, you’ll discover that this is not the name given to the Animas River by Juan Maria Rivera in 1765. He called it Rio de las Animas (River of Souls). However, in the late 1800s, someone appended “perdidas” to the name and it stuck. As far as I’m concerned, River of Lost Souls is as good a name as River of Souls. After all, Rio de las Animas was not the first name of the river—the Ute and Navajo people had their own names for it as well.

Animas Valley and Animas River valley: I use Animas Valley to refer to the U-shaped valley just north of Durango. I use Animas River valley to refer to the entire length of the drainage.