Meeker Locals

Whether you realize it or not, there’s a historic connection between the city of Greeley on the Front Range and the town of Meeker. Nathan Meeker worked as a reporter for Horace Greeley. Greeley, it is said, visited the town that bears his name for one day in 1870. He loaned Meeker the money to start the Greeley Tribune and returned to his native New York. A few years later, Nathan Meeker would travel to…