A HISTORY: GREELEY AND THE UNION COLONY OF COLORADO. By David Boyd. 448 pages, indexed. Originally published at Greeley, 1890.

The Union Colony consisted of a group of ambitious and idealistic easterners who decided to take Horace Greeley's advice and "Go West", there to carve out a home on the Colorado plains. The county seat for Weld County, Greeley is now the home of Northern Colorado University and a sizable and diverse population. When this book was written however, the town was only 20 years old, a small but growing ranch and farm community. One can only wish more Western towns had been the subject of such extensive historical reporting so soon after their founding. No one who played a significant role in the founding of the town is left out or forgotten because they subsequently moved on, details are not fogged in the mists of time and second hand accounts. This fascinating account of the birth of a town will be of interest to all historians, demographers and genealogists interested in the settlement of the West.

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