Mary Prowers Hudnell was the daughter of Amache Prowers and John Wesley Prowers. At the age of 82, she wrote an article for The Colorado Magazine in 1945 detailing the early life of herself and her family in 19th-century Colorado.
This article, written in the 1940s by the daughter of Amache Prowers, provide a unique view of early Colorado history from a woman of mixed Indigenous and Anglo-American ancestry.
Editor’s note: Mary Prowers Hudnell was the daughter of Amache Prowers and John Wesley Prowers. At the age of 82, she wrote an article for the November 1945 edition of The Colorado Magazine, detailing her early life in Colorado. Her stories of life in Boggsville, visiting her mother's family, and attending school in both Trinidad and Denver, provide a unique view of this period of Colorado history from a woman of mixed Indigenous and Anglo-American ancestry.
