White River Agency, Colorado August 31, 1879 Sir: I think it my duty to ask you for 10,000 pounds of oats, in addition to the 20,000 pounds now arriving. We are running 6 mules to ploughs, expecting to break 50 acres this fall for sowing oats next spring, and for[Read More…]
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MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 85
White River Agency, Colorado August 25, 1879 Sir: Naturally, our harnesses are giving way, and must be repaired, and as we have an employee who can do the work, I ask an appropriation for this object, the items being: I saddle horse, 1 gauge-knife, 1 round ditto, 3 medium punches,[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 84
White River Agency, Colorado August 25, 1879 Sir: In regard to circular No. 31, July 12 1878, I have to say that I was awaiting your decision as to whether any agency buildings would be erected this year. The warehouse as proposed would have furnished storage for roots, and for[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 83
White River Agency, Colo. August 11, 1879 Sir: In a letter of this date (A) are several things connected with the subject of this letter. I have a strong belief that a raid is to be made on our herd through the connivance of the Indians, and what I want[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 82
Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, July 23, 1879 To N.C. Meeker, Rawlins: I will obtain the machinery and have it shipped to your agency. You must take a decided stand with your Indians, to prevent future depredations. E.A. HAYT Commissioner of Indian Affairs White River Agency, Colorado August 11, 1879[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 81
White River Agency, Colorado July 16, 1879 Sir: In regard to purchasing the grist mill of Todd and Co., Saint Louis, I find it hardly practicable to do business with them. First, they insist that the man performing the skilled labor, for which you have appropriated $400, must have $3[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS Letters from history No. 80
Denver, Colo. July 5, 1879 To Hon. N.A. HAYT, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.; Reports reach me daily that a band of White River Utes are off their reservation, destroying forest and game, near North and Middle Parks..They have already burned millions of dollars of timber, and are intimidating[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS Letters from history No. 79
Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, July 12,1879 Sir: Agent Meeker, of the White River Agency, Colorado, under date of the 30th ultimo, reports having purchased under an existency 146 pounds of rope, for use in “rounding up” his cattle for branding, etc. at a cost of $28.47[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS Letters from history No. 78
White River Agency, Colorado July 10, 1879 Sir: I wish to be informed as to whether Ute Indians from Uintah and Los Pinos Agencies are to be considered “visiting Indians” such as referred to in circular No. 10, prohibiting the issue of annuity goods to any but “Indians belonging to[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS: Letters from history No. 77
Special to the HT White River Agency, Colorado July 7, 1879 Sir: In close, herewith, proposals of Messrs. Clements, Leadville, Colorado, for constructing agency building, they are so indefinite that I cannot see how they can form more than a basis, and as I do not know whether it was[Read More…]
MUSEUM MUSINGS Letters from history No. 76
Special to the HT MEEKER | The information that follows was taken from the ANNUAL REPORT OF 1879. The contents of this book are the reports from the Indian agents from coast to coast. In browsing the contents there is a common thread from coast to coast. The agents are[Read More…]
DINNER AT THE MUSEUM
It wouldn’t be a night at the museum without the presence of Teddy Roosevelt in the background. A small group of Meeker residents enjoyed a catered meal at the White River Museum recently. With the restored Meeker Hotel bar as the backdrop on one side and the historic stagecoach on[Read More…]