MEEKER I While the Meeker Pageant—the annual dramatic re-enactment of the events leading up to and surrounding the Meeker Massacre—garners plenty of attention every year during Range Call, history buffs should take time out to tour another nearby battle site.
The Milk Creek Battle of 1879 was the last major engagement between a Native American tribe and the United States Army.
As tensions escalated between White River Indian Agent Nathan Meeker and the Utes, Meeker…