Meeker

By Kristin Bowen

The free-roaming Ute Indians were the first modern-day people to live in the White River valley. After mounting tensions erupted into violence and the Indian agency near present-day Meeker was attacked, the Ute were soon evicted from northwestern Colorado in 1881. By that time, adventurous people were pressing in at all sides to settle the area. Settlers drawn by land speculation and ranching populated this rural area. Ranching, hunting, guiding, and coal, oil shale, oil, and gas extraction were the ways people made their livings, or hoped to, in this region. Meeker had it all with a touch of Wild West and a promise of the American dream and all in a setting that would lure Teddy Roosevelt himself. Inside this book are glimpses of the people, traditions, celebrations, and ways of life of those who lived here before us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781439647028

Kristin Bowen

Author Kristin Bowen is passionate about preserving history and sharing it with everyone. She has compiled an array of photographs from family collections--including those of Pagosa's most famous resident artist, Fred Harman--and the archives of the Denver Public Library and the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College to produce this pictorial history of Pagosa Springs and Archuleta County.

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