Footprints in the Sugar: A History of the Great Western Sugar Company

by Candy Hamilton

695 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[C.Reider · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an extremely important and thorough historical document of the sugar industry in Northern Colorado. The chapters on the Germans from Russia, and the Mexican & Japanese immigrants are incredible... I learned things I never knew about the struggle of migrant workers in the USA going back for over a century. A ridiculously well researched book, it's humbling just flipping through this massive tome.

I'm marking this as "currently reading" because there's no way I'll ever be able to sit down and read the whole thing back to front, and at the same time, this is a book I'm likely to come back to again and again.

I grew up in this area, went to church near the Loveland plant back when it was still in operation, and so I've long been interested in this history. It's undeniable that some of the towns around here wouldn't exist in their current form if it hadn't been for Great Western.