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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1886
Page
4
The Greeley Tribune reprints Horace Greeley’s article on emigration to the West and N C Meeker’s call for a Colorado colony. Letters from David Boyd and J Max Clark critique the town’s founding, while residents note Meeker led Union Colony effort and helped build The Greeley Tribune.
Union Colony locating committee member H T West recalls how Meeker of the New York Tribune inspired the colonization idea after seeing Colorado valleys. He notes Meeker urged settlers to form a colony, a notion echoed by J C Shattuck, with additional remarks on the rain belt claim.
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