Jose Francisco Torres was born and raised "up the river" above
Trinidad, Colorado and his life spanned from the cowboy days of the
late 1800s to the technological era of the late 1900s. Despite the
security of his home in the rural Spanish community, there was
something lacking: opportunity and respect for his people from the
outside world. Early on, he conceived the notion that this was
wrong, that he and his people deserved better and, as a child, he
felt prompted to do something about it. The question became what
and how? Discrimination was everywhere and he had neither money nor
support to assist him. But with faith and determination, and to the
dismay of his parents, he set out to prove it could be done.
Refused entry into law school because of his background, he refused
to be stopped by the rejection. This chronicle of the hardships,
gains, setbacks and wins in the life of this man details what he
felt and what he accomplished in his lifelong battle against
prejudice and for equality. In the process, he lost his first love,
battled a deadly disease, crossed with the Ku Klux Klan, gained a
law degree, defended the poor and disadvantaged, married his
Crusita and reared three children, took on the political
establishment, joined every civic good cause that came his way, and
became the Honorable J. Frank Torres, "the only honest judge we
ever had " Lois Gerber Franke was born and reared on an eastern
Colorado ranch where she learned to ride, rope and shoot. She
graduated from the University of Colorado and has completed studies
from other institutions. After college she lived and worked at jobs
in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. She married Paul, an
engineer, and lived at Grand Lake, Colorado where she learned trout
fishing. The family then moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where she
did city planning before settling into a career of teaching high
school English and Journalism and coaching the table tennis team.
Lois has three grown children and is a compulsive reader who likes
horses, dogs, puns, cribbage, lilacs and rainy days. This book
springs from her friendship with an intrepid and unforgettable
neighbor.
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