Colorado Prospector : historical highlights from early day newspapers, v. 9, n. 13, 1978 Apr.

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Colorado Prospector : historical highlights from early day newspapers, v. 9, n. 13, 1978 Apr.

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Reprints of early newspaper articles about the Meeker Massacre.

1 issue.

Boulder Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7461416

Boulder Public Library

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Meeker, Josephine

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Meeker, Nathan Cook, 1814-1879

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Colorado pioneer, Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Ohio in 1817. He worked as a newspaperman, traveling salesman and teacher throughout the United States. Meeker was selected by Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, to found the agricultural community known as the Union Colony of Colorado at present day Greeley, Colo. Greeley provided major funding for the colony. Based on utopian and religious ideals, the organization was established in 1869 with approximately 700 colonists and was know...