Meeker

MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history, No. 71

White River Agency, Colorado.

August 11, 1879.

Sir: I send this day requisition for funds for the present quarter. The pay for herder should be increased to $720 a year with the rest [of the] employees, for the reason that the present herder is one of the best men I have, and to make this discrimination will naturally lead to his resignation, or at least to a transfer to some other place on the list when…