Greeley
Northern Colorado city
Greeley is a city in northern Colorado, about fifty miles north of Denver, serving as a regional center for agriculture and education.
Named after newspaper editor Horace Greeley, who encouraged westward expansion.
The name also appears as a surname: Horace Greeley famously urged, "Go West, young man." (Lowercase greeley is not standard usage.)
News gathering and dissemination
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- editorOne who revises text
- publisherCompany releasing books
- muckrakerJournalist exposing corruption
reformer · Whig Party · antislavery · presidential candidate · newspaper · editorial · columnist · press
Colorado Front Range city
- High PlainsSemi-arid western American tableland
- Rocky MountainsWestern North American cordillera
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
livestock · dairy farms · irrigation · oil · wind farms · energy · sustainability · Evans
Person inhabiting new territory
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- foundingCreating an organization originally
agriculture · frontier · homesteader · westward expansion · community · settlers · territorial · prairie
journalism
News gathering and dissemination
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- editorOne who revises text
- publisherCompany releasing books
muckraker · reformer · Whig Party · antislavery · presidential candidate · newspaper · editorial · columnist · press · utopian
Loveland
Colorado Front Range city
- High PlainsSemi-arid western American tableland
- Rocky MountainsWestern North American cordillera
- agricultureCultivation of land, livestock
meatpacking · livestock · dairy farms · irrigation · oil · wind farms · energy · sustainability · Evans · Windsor
colonist
Person inhabiting new territory
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
founding · agriculture · frontier · homesteader · westward expansion · community · settlers · territorial · prairie · High Plains
ancestry
Family line of descent
genealogy · kinship · descent · bloodline · forebears · relatives · pedigree · clan · Irish · patronymic
- Colorado PlacesDenver, Colorado Springs, Durango, Vail, Golden
- Northern ColoradoLoveland, Windsor, Wellington, Severance, Johnstown
- Plains CitiesBismarck, Fargo, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Sioux City
- California OilfieldsBuena Vista, Wilmington, Ventura
- Delaware CountyMedia, Chester, Darby, Springfield, Ridley
GreeleyDenver
Colorado's capital city
Colorado Springs · Vail · Telluride · Aurora