Nathan Cook Meeker was a 19th-century American journalist, homesteader, entrepreneur, and Indian agent for the federal government. He is noted for his founding in 1870 of the Union Colony, a cooperative agricultural colony in present-day Greeley, Colorado.
Nathan Meeker
The site of the Meeker massacre.
Meeker's former home, now The Meeker Memorial Museum in Greeley, Colorado
An etching that appeared in the December 6, 1879 edition of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicts the aftermath of the "Meeker Massacre." Meeker grave at lower left; W.H. Post grave at lower right.
In United States history, an Indian agent was an individual authorized to interact with American Indian tribes on behalf of the government.
Bust of Benjamin Hawkins