Old Boston: As Wild As They Come
(Book)

Sometimes lost stories are the best stories. Hidden in the archives of a small town museum this story provides insight into the 1886-1889 boomtown era of Southeast Colorado and in particular a town called Boston Colorado. Boston was the second of seventeen towns which were started during this town building era of the late 1880s. On November 16, 1886, four members of the Boston Town Company stopped on the Southeast Colorado plains to stake out and establish Boston, Colorado. Frontier newspaperman Sam Konkel joined the town company and promoted Boston as "The Utopian City of the Plains." Built to catch the railroad and become the county seat of a new Colorado county, Boston became one of the rowdiest towns on the American frontier. Homesteaders and outlaws made Boston home during its brief existence. Included among the inhabitants of Boston were the Jennings clan before they gained fame in Oklahoma. The story chronicles the life of the town leading up to the April 1889 siege which was the end of the Colorado Boomtown era and this old west town which was...As Wild As They Come.