Wetmore,CO
Wetmore is a beautiful little town on the edge of the Wet Mountains. Frontier Pathways Scenic Byway comes west out of Pueblo along State Highway 96 and goes right through town and on up into the Wet Mountains. There is a creek flowing through town called Hardscrabble Creek, most famous as the site of a failed community back in the 1840's. That's how Hardscrabble got its' name: according the George Simpson, this was because of the "hard scrabbling to get in a crop" in the gravelly soil. In 1846, a dry year had most of Hardscrabble's residents packing. When John C. Fremont came through in 1848 he found the settlement at Hardscrabble almost completely deserted (this was only 4 years after the settlement was started). But when you see Wetmore, you can see why they tried.