http://www.jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org/images/Cotopaxi.pdf http://www.jewish-american-society-for-historic-preservation.org/completedprgms1/cotopaxicolorado.html These colonists, most of whom were related, traveled to Colorado in hopes of starting a successful farming community and to reap the benefits of the new Homestead Act, which would grant each head male of a family 160 acres of land.