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HUERFANO — Had it not been for Ceran St. Vrain, Colorado might be an entirely different sort of place. Praise him or curse him, but remember him as the first, and biggest, land developer in the southeastern part of the state.

Ceran was the second child of Jacques Marcellin Ceran de Hault de Lassus, born in 1801 at Spanish Lake, Missouri, near St. Louis.

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Jacques added de St. Vrain to his name and Ceran Americanized the whole title to simply Ceran St. Vrain. Even simplified, the name confounded spellers all over the west for the next seven decades. New Mexicans knew him as “Sambran” while his fellow trappers and traders often referred to him as “Varane”.

Some of his Indian acquaintances just called him “Black Beard”. Jacques died when Ceran was 16.

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With eight younger siblings in the household, Ceran got a job to help out. He became a clerk for Barnard Pratte’s trading company at $20 per month. He also lived with the Pratte family. Pratte financed many trapping parties in the Far Wes