HT STAFF MEEKER | With this issue of the HT we begin our 141st year of continuous community journalism as the second oldest newspaper in Northwest Colorado (the Steamboat Pilot beat us by two weeks because of travel troubles encountered getting the old printing press from Leadville to Meeker by[Read More…]
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Milk Creek Battle radically changed Colorado and Utes’ world
RBC | By Sept. 23, 1879, the march toward what would become the Battle of Milk Creek, northeast of the present town of Meeker, was underway. The weeklong battle that began on the morning of Sept. 29, combined with the killing of Nathan Meeker and employees at the White River[Read More…]
