Sixteen Years on the Great American Desert: The Trials and Triumphs of a Frontier Life

This book details early pioneer life in Greeley, Colorado, from a woman's perspective. The author moved with her husband from Pennsylvania to Greeley Colorado. The town was named after Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, it began as the Union Colony in 1869, an experimental utopian society, but the name was later changed in honor of Horace Greeley and Colorado Governor Benjamin Eaton declared Greeley an official city on April 6, 1886.Greeley was built on farming and agriculture but kept up with most modern technologies as they grew. Telephones were in town by 1883 with electric lights downtown by 1886.

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