In his journal entry of July 4, 1765, Rivera actually named our river the Rio De Las Animas ... is actually another Animas City an even another Purgatory, in this case, a river named the Purgatoire.

A fast-growing wildfire in southeast Colorado forced evacuations ... 101 about two miles south of Las Animas. The fire moved quickly into the Purgatoire River bottom and east down the river.