White River Museum's History in the News

​White River Museum was featured in the Pueblo Chieftan this week as place to find history in the area. The article was titled: "RUGGED ROOTS"
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“MEEKER — It sure looks tranquil around here.

That makes it even more difficult to believe that this bucolic community with its perfectly manicured town square and quaint, frontier-era business district was founded on — and named after — a massacre.

To the Ute Indians, whose people had for generations inhabited all of what is now Colorado, the area they called the “Shining Mountains” was…” (Read more)