This gazetteer will be useful for identifying the population of any city or town in the West throughout its history and for showing patterns of growth for historical or planning studies...a useful tool for the study of the interplay between population and other factors in the growth of the west. To a demographer its carefully arrayed numbers must be as beautiful as the carefully arrayed dots of color in a pointillist masterpiece are to an art connoisseur. - RETTIG ON REFERENCE ...No other source gathers all these data in one place...Tables are clear and easy to read. All libraries with a need for historical population figures will want this book. - CHOICE