LongmontFYI - Can you rewrite history?

LongmontFYI - Can you rewrite history?: "Lou Barnes wants his great-grandfather remembered more for his legacy as a town builder. Later in his life, Burton Barnes also appears to have founded another Western town.
"There's a lot of people founded one town," his great-grandson said. "There's not a lot who did it twice."
After leaving Longmont, Burton Barnes ended up in Oklahoma. According to the Ponca City, Okla., Web site, Burton Barnes -- who owned a furniture plant in Adrian, Mich. -- headed to the Cherokee Strip in the spring of 1893 and organized the Ponca Townsite Co.
Much like the Chicago-Colorado Colony, the city sold land plots, had wide streets and focused on schools and libraries.
Loyd Bishop -- a genealogy librarian in Ponca City, population 26,000 -- said he had heard that Burton Barnes had helped to found the town decades earlier.
"All of his business dealings here were quite well-respected," Bishop said. "I would rather doubt (the rumor about Longmont), but it's possible that he may have learned from his prior sins.'"