Editing Las Animas, Colorado (section)

==Etymology==
According to legend, the town and the Purgatoire River were named after a group of ''[[conquistador]]es'', probably part of [[Francisco Vásquez de Coronado|Coronado]]'s expedition, who died without the [[last rites]] sacrament of a priest. According to Catholic belief, their souls would go to [[Purgatory]] as a result. The original Spanish name for ''Las Ánimas'' ("The Souls", in Spanish) was purported to be{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} ''La Ciudad de Las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio,'' "The city of lost souls in Purgatory." According to author Morris F. Taylor, though, this is not consistent with Spanish Catholic belief, but a French Catholic belief.<ref>{{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Morris F. |title= [[Trinidad, Colorado Territory]] |publisher= [[O'Brien and Stationery Co.]] |location= [[Pueblo, Colorado]] |pages= 1–7 |year= 1966 }}</ref> The Spanish version, ''El Río de las Ánimas Perdidas en Purgatorio,'' was considered an embellishment of the French version. No 19th-century map shows this full Spanish name or any translation of it. Existing maps have different names for the river: ''Río de Las Ánimas,'' Purgatory River, and "Picatoire", a corruption of ''Purgatoire'' (which today is anglicized as Picketwire). French fur traders of the 19th century referred to the river as the ''Purgatoire''. Another anglicization was the Pick of Ware.