PRESS RELEASE MEEKER | Mark Wing, a member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, continues to serve his community through cultural leadership, education and youth advocacy. He’ll be in attendance at the opening reception for the Smithsonian exhibit, “The Americans” on May 15 in Meeker. Wing, who lives in Towaoc[Read More…]
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RBCHS GUEST COLUMN: A personal invitation to step in and help carry our story forward
Special to the HT RBC | There are moments in an organization’s life when you can feel that something important is shifting. This is one of those moments for the Rio Blanco County Historical Society. In my time as Executive Director, I’ve had the chance to watch people walk through[Read More…]
GUEST COLUMN: Why knowing our history matters – Understanding the White River Valley before us
Special to the HT RBC | Today, as we enter into America’s 250th birthday and Colorado’s 150th, the echoes of those events remain part of our local story. But understanding this history requires more than simply remembering dates or repeating familiar stories. It asks us to look deeper: at the[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 98
October 8, 1879 General W.T. SHERMAN, War Department: Your dispatch was received. Captain Payne is all right. His command lost Thornburgh and eleven men were killed. Three officers and forty men were wounded. All but one slightly. The command was relieved by Merritt on Sunday morning. Dodge’s company, Ninth Cavalry,[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS:Letters from history No. 97
October 8, 1879 General E.D. TOWNSEND,U.S.A. WASHINGTON,D.C.: The following dispatch from General Crook just received. It looks reliable. P.H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant- General. Fort Steele Wyo. General P.H. Sheridan, Chicago, Ill, : The following just received at Rawlins and given you for what it is worth: The mail-carrier says, in response to[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS:Letters from history No. 95
Los Pinos Indian Agency, October 2,1879 TO THE OFFICERS IN COMMAND AND THE SOLDIERS AT THE WHITE RIVER AGENCY: Gentleman: At the request of the chief of the Utes at this agency, I sent it to Joe. W. Brady, an employee, the enclosed order from Chief Oray to the Utes[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS:Letters from history No. 94
Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri, Chicago, October 1, 1879 General A.H. TERRY, Saint Paul, Minn.: Major Thornburgh’s command, three companies of cavalry and one of infantry, were attacked near the White River Ute Agency, Colorado. Thornburgh and ten men were killed, and about twenty soldiers and teamsters were wounded. The[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 93
Office of Indian Affairs Washington, DC HON. C. SCHURZ Muscogee, Indian Territory Dispatches received today from Agent Meeker convoy information of an expected outbreak by his indians. A later dispatch from Rawlings reports that Major Thornburgh’s command was attacked by the Indians on Milk Creek, eighteen miles north of the[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 92
White River Agency, Colorado September 29, 1879 To E. S. HAYT, Commissioner, Washington, D.C.: Major Thornburgh, Fourth Infantry, leaves his command 50 miles distant and comes today with five men. Indians propose to fight if troops advance. A talk will be had tomorrow. Captain Dodge, Ninth Cavalry, is at Steamboat[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 92
To E. A. HAYT, Commissioner, Washington, D.C.: September 27, 1879 Sir: In answer to your exceptions to my property account for first quarter 1879, I would say that the eight police edits received for December 20, 1878, are properly accounted for in the office copy of property returns for said[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 91
To E. A. HAYT, Commissioner, Washington, D.C.: Would say to yours 23rd September, if soldiers arrest Indians and go away, I must go with them. Soldiers must stay. Large bodies of Indians leaving for the north to hunt. They insisted I should give out blankets now. I refused. Trade in[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 90
White River Agency , Colorado September 17,1879 Sir: Your message of 13th instant received today, there is no particular change either for worse or better. No plowing is done, nor will till it can be done in safety. It remains to be seen whether the business and industries of this[Read More…]
