Disappointment Valley School, San Miguel County, Colorado San Miguel Colorado USA According to Nellie Carnahan Robinson, who taught at the school in 1897, “there was not another schoolhouse in the whole country as primitive as this one.” The building was built in one day by local men, and constructed of wood logs chinked with adobe mud. The mud fell out and the children could look out from many places. Woodrats made their nests in the ceiling and below the floor. The rats spread diseases and stole food supply. When they moved around in the ceiling, it showered the teacher and children with dirt. yes yes