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 _ Meeker’s unusual history on display in White River Museum
“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…”
“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…”
