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  • Chapter 11 - One Promise Kept:

  • Douglas B. Bamforth, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
    Published online:
    19 November 2021
    Print publication:
    23 September 2021, pp 341-385

  • Summary

    I live in Longmont, Colorado, on the western edge of the Great Plains. Settlers from Chicago founded the modern city of Longmont in 1871 by the St. Vrain River (a generous term for a small watercourse), adjacent to the slightly older community of Burlington (Estes et al. 1971). Longmont has grown since then from a population of a couple of hundred to a community of nearly 100,000. My city’s many amenities include Sandstone Ranch, a park just east of town that includes athletic fields, a wildlife refuge, and an elegant late-19th-century home that a pioneer named Morse Coffin built at the base of a sandstone cliff overlooking the St. Vrain.