Teresita Sandoval

Maria Teresa "Teresita" Sandoval Suazo (1811–1894) was among the first women of European heritage to live in the Arkansas Valley of present-day Colorado.

Sandoval and Kinkead had two children together named Juan Andrés (born November 29, 1835) and Rafaela.

[5] In 1838, Kinkead owned three hundred sheep and a yoke of oxen, which he obtained from the sale of his house and land.

There was increased anti-American sentiment due to rumors that soldiers from the Republic of Texas were going to attack New Mexico.

Kinkead began to fear both New Mexican people and Texans, who were described as a desperate band of men.

Described as “pretty as a peach,” Teresita captivated another Englishman, Alexander Barclay, who wrote of “TS” in his journals.

Her life affirms that women moved between cultures, strengthened family and trade alliances, exercised rights under Mexican Law and ventured north for the freedom the frontier promised.

He had Dick Wooten trade his sheep for milk cows in Kansas City and deliver them to the farm, where he began to raise buffalo after taking calves from herds.

Goods traded at the fort included buffalo fur and leather, food, jewelry, and tools.

The life included hard work and defense against Native Americans who defended their ancestral hunting grounds.

[15] Prior to 1848, when the Mexican–American War ended, Mexican law allowed women to inherit and purchase land and livestock, to share ownership with their husbands, to establish their own businesses, and to begin divorce proceedings.

[2] In 1853,[4][16] or after Barclay's death in 1855,[3] Sandoval lived in a one-room house on the ranch of her daughter, Maria De La Cruz "Cruzita" Suaso Doyle (b.