Alamosa

Alamosa, city, seat (1913) of Alamosa county, southern Colorado, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande in the San Luis Valley, on the western flank of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Founded as Garland City near the site of a small encampment outside the gates of Fort Garland (1858), a cavalry post once commanded by Christopher (“Kit”) Carson, Alamosa (Spanish: “Cottonwood”) was a terminus of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. It developed as...