Tom Tobin: Frontiersman

Tom Tobin: Frontiersman contained accurate, helpful and interesting information to assist with Tobin and Autobees family histories. It contained much information that explained data in the US Census and other genealogy sources.

The story of Tom Tobin is an amazing story of frontier life at the time that Colorado's San Luis Valley became part of the United States following the Spanish American War. South of the Arkansas River had been part of Mexico and it became the state of New Mexico actually including Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. The lines were later adjusted to create the states as we know them today. The native Americans and even many of the Spanish inhabitants, who were not Mexican but rather direct descendants of immigrants from Spain, were not pleased with the transition and Toms story deals with conflict with both.