Niwot, Colorado:: Birth of a Railroad Town (American Chronicles)

When the Colorado Central laid down tracks that hauled the freight of settlement along the base of the Rocky Mountain foothills, Niwot became Boulder County's first railroad town. Historian Anne Quinby Dyni has mined this charming community's heritage for over a decade, fetching forgotten stories for a new generation in her Yesterday's News column. Oral histories, diaries and early newspaper accounts of the past century bring to life more than seventy of her favorites--St. Vrain Valley pioneers, 1940s lost wedding traditions, the origin of Gunbarrel and many more.