HISTORY LESSONS: Agency Survivors, Part III

The result of Meeker’s first panicked letter to Washington, D.C., was an order to Major Thornburg at Ft. Steel to take troops to the White River Agency. They left Rawlins in the evening of Sept. 23. In route, Thornburg sent a courier, scout Charlie Lowry, ahead to Agent Meeker inquiring details on the situation.  On the 27th, two messengers delivered Meeker’s reply from the Agency. The couriers were Wilmer E. Eskridge and an agency interpreter,…