In 1863, a Boulder farmer wrote home to urge his family to move to Colorado. The four-page letter was recently auctioned, and archivist Marti Anderson helped acquire it for Boulder's Carnegie Branch Library for Local History. (First broadcast December 8, 2003.)
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