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La Junta

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La Junta

City and administrative headquarters of Otero County, southeastern Colorado, on the Arkansas River, 97 km/60 mi southeast of Pueblo; population (2000) 7,600. It is a trade and rail centre for cattle and produce. There are also canneries and meatpacking plants, railway repair workshops, and cattle auction facilities.

Originally at the site of the Bent's Fort fur-trading post, now a National Historic Site 13 km/8 mi to the northeast, La Junta was moved with the arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1875. It is the seat of Otero Junior College (1941) and the birthplace (1935) of novelist Ken Kesey. Comanche National Grassland is southwest of the city.



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Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City, where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead.
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