First / Annual Report / Of The / Union Colony Of Colorado, / Including A / History Of The Town Of Greeley, / From Its Date Of Settlement To The Present Time: / With / Descriptive Chapters / On / Agriculture, Irrigation, Climate, Mountain Scenery, Flora, / Churches, Schools, Societies, &c.

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_____Howes3=C-614____ Graff=4235 ____Wilcox=p.115____ Bradford=1001____ Wynar=1474____ Henkle=1253 __________ Wilcox notes that the author was William E. Pabor and that no more reports were ever issued._____ This format sold for 25õ, but it was also available with a map for 75õ. _____ "Union Colony was a cooperative enterprise conceived by Horace Greeley._____ It was actually founded by N.C. Meeker later victim of the Ute Massacre and one of the most famous of all Colorado pioneers._____ A group of fifty families arrived in 1870 to establish._____an agricultural colony relying on irrigation for their lands._____ Morally, it was one of the strictest run of all such enterprises and woe to the enterprising publican who attempted to dispense liquid refreshment in that area." --Heaston 21.221. _____ The front cover is free and edge flaked, the rear cover is missing._____ There is damage to the concluding leaf of text affecting one paragraph on the Greeley Silver Cornet Band._____ . _____ WorldCat (08/21) shows a single holding (LOC). _____. N° de ref. del artículo 24309

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