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Pub. Date
1957
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Boggsville was one of the first permanent settlements in Colorados Arkansas Valley. Established as a ranch sometime around 1862 by Thomas O. Boggs and his wife, Rumalda Luna Boggs, the site was part of the Vigil & St. Vrain/Las Animas Mexican land grant. Boggs acquired the land, over 2,000 acres, through his wife, who was the stepdaughter of Charles Bent, proprietor of Bents Fort and the first Governor of New Mexico after the Mexican American War....
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Cattle Beet Capital explores the economic, cultural, and environmental processes and contingencies that shaped the evolution of industrial agriculture in northern Colorado"--
"In 1870 several hundred settlers arrived at a patch of land at the confluence of the South Platte and Cache la Poudre Rivers in Colorado territory. Their planned agricultural community, which they named Greeley, was centered around small landholdings, shared irrigation, and...
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