History Lessons, Meeker

HISTORY LESSONS: Potato Polo

RBC | Janice Oldland showed me a photo taken in Meeker on July 4, 1913, of men on horseback holding pointed sticks, resembling swords, around a box on the ground. If you’d like to see a copy, one is on display at the Bank of the San Juans. 

From left to right, the mounted men are Gerald Oldland, an unknown rider, Walter Oldland, and John Oldland—all sons of Rueben Oldland, who was then vice president…