I am hoping someone can help me ascertain the truth in part of a family story involving my niece's ancestors. Here is the story: "My Great Grandmother, Myrtle Nix Garner, died of TB in a sanitarium in Denver in the late 1930's. The children including my grandmother, Elizabeth Nadine or Nadine Elizabeth Garner, and their father, John Garner, were living in a 'tent' city outside Monte Vista, Rio Grande, Colorado, about 3 and a half hours by car from Denver. John put the kids in an orphanage when Myrtle died. There were 5 children, I think. Nadine Elizabeth (called Pinkie) was adopted by the Ferretti's." Was there a 'tent' city near Monte Vista in late 1930's and why? Dotty Sprague Cole Lake Mary, FL