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. PRICE 25 CENTS. WITH MAP OF GREELEY AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY, 75 CENTS.
New York: George W. Southwick, 1871. Original printed wrappers [worn, spotted, blank extremity chips], bound into modern cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine title. 40pp. Outer margins spotted, especially the final ten pages. The rear wrapper advertises the Chicago and Northwestern Railway as "the Pioneer Line between Chicago and Omaha and the direct route from the East to Colorado." Good or Good+.
"Apparently the map mentioned on the title-page was not issued with the pamphlet" [Graff]. As the title explains, for 75 cents you could buy one with the map.
"The first history of the town of Greeley, published within one year after the Locating Committee, consisting of N. C. Meeker, R. A. Cameron and H. T. West, explored various localities in Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah, before deciding upon the site of which is now Greeley. The above work gives an account of the first arrivals and the trials and triumphs of the town a-borning" [Decker]. Nathan Meeker, an Indian Agent in western Colorado, began the colony as an agricultural cooperative community. He was later killed by Ute Indians in the 1879 "Meeker Massacre." The Union Colony was named for Horace Greeley editor of the New York Tribune.
Howes C608. Graff 4235. 25 Decker 100. Item #38415
Price: $300.00