The History of Boulder County Rests Here: John D. Slye John D. Slye was born on March 27, 1885, in Manchester, Iowa, to Luman and Elizabeth Jane Williamson Schley. When he and his siblings were children, the family moved to Boulder, Colorado. At about that same time, the family changed the spelling of their name to be more American, but the pronunciation remained the same. Luman and Elizabeth spent the rest of their lives in Boulder and are buried together in Green Mountain Cemetery. After compl

Subutai never established a dynasty, never bore a royal title, and left no memoirs. Yet in the early thirteenth century he stood at the heart of the Mongol war machine and directed campaigns that remade Eurasia on a scale few commanders have equaled. Born around 1175, likely among the forest-dwelling Uriankhai north of the Mongol steppe, Subutai did not belong to the aristocratic Borjigin clan. Later accounts describe his father as a blacksmith and stress that his rise came through service rathe