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 cooperati
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.
Nicaagat, also known as Chief, Captain and Ute Jack and Green Leaf. A Ute warrior and subchief, he led a Ute war party against the United States Army when it crossed Milk Creek onto the Ute reservatio
Ute camp, Henry Chapman Ford
The Milk Creek disaster - death of Major Thornburgh, of the Fourth United States Infantry, while leading soldiers into the White River Ute Reservation
Ute delegation, Washington, D.C., Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution