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The history of the Range Call Pageant ~ Reviving the Past

by Special to the Herald Times on July 3, 2014

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phMKPageantTribe — The Ute children gather around their village in the good times, but the future becomes less bright for all, culminating in the burning of the Meeker Indian agent’s settlement.

The Meeker Massacre Pageant started in 1938, when the American Legion Auxiliary asked Laroy Purdy to organize the show.

The Auxiliary thought that adding this show that depicted the history of Meeker to the other Fourth of July festivities might draw more people and a little…