Letters from History No. 50 White River Agency, Colorado.June 16, 1879Sir: I send you my cash account for first quarter, 1879. The delay arose, first, from not receiving funds until May 9; and. Second, I failed until a few days ago to get Mr. Lithgow’s vouchers signed.Respectfully,N. C. MEEKER,Indian Agent[Read More…]
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Letters from History, No. 49 White River Agency, ColoradoJune 15, 1879. Sir: Advertisements for proposals for building agency structures have been made, agreeably to your directions, copies of which will be sent you; and I think I ought to ask you whether contractors can have anything from the government here, as[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History No. 48
White River Agency, ColoradoJune 12, 1879. Sir: As the three wagons you have purchased by my request for Indians will I understand, soon be here, I ask your authority to retain them for agency use and give the Indians instead those we are using. First being 3 ½ inch, they are[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 47
Special to the HeraldDepartment of the InteriorOffice of Indian Affairs,June 3, 1879 Sir: At a recent awarding of contracts for supplies for the Indian service, no proposals to furnish your agency with 20,000 pounds of oats and 1,500 pounds of salt were received, and now N.W. Wells has made a[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 45
Special to the Herald White River Agency, Colorado.June 1, 1879 Sir: I note that in your “exceptions” to my property returns, fourth quarter 1878, just received, you call my attention to circular letter No. 26, October 1878, to the effect that strict compliance will be required with what this circular[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Live and let live
If you haven’t been reading the heretofore unpublished letters between Nathan Meeker and his contacts in Washington, D.C., you should be. Meeker, an ill-suited idealist sent to the area as Indian agent — maybe the original “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help” tale — who had a[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from history, No. 32
White River Agency, Colorado, April 7, 1879 Sir: In this quarterly report I have to say the health of the Indians has not been so good as hitherto and there have been some deaths, while some have recovered from pneumonia, though the tendency now seems toward consumption. A serious fighting[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 31
Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, March 31, 1879. Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 8th instant, in which you state that the chiefs and headmen of your agency, in [counsel] assembled, fully indorse the action of their representatives while in Washington last[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from history, No. 28
Sir: In reply to your letter of the 10th instant relative to an amount remitted to you per tabular statement for first quarter, 1879, for pay of herder and Indian assistant herder to be paid from the “subsistence fund”, under treaty with the Utes, I have to advise you that[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 11
Special to the Herald Times The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 8
The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army officers from 1874-1879. The letters[Read More…]
Museum Musings: Letters from History, No. 7
The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army officers from 1874-1879. The letters[Read More…]
