The Meeker Herald (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,825 issues from 1885 to 1923, published in Meeker, Colorado, digitised for Chronicling America.
Meeker, Colorado, was founded in July 1885 by the Meeker Town Company out of the remains of an abandoned military post, Camp White River. The town was named for Nathan Meeker, the former agriculture editor for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune, who moved to Colorado in 1870 to found the utopian community of Union Colony, which is the present-day Greeley, Colorado. When the colony failed to be financially successful and the community members balked at adopting his religious values, Meeker took an appointment at the White River Ute Indian Agency. He incurred the resentment of the White River Utes for attempting to convert them to Christianity and imposing farming reforms, including plowing a field the Utes used for grazing and racing horses. After a tense conversation with a Ute chief, Meeker wired for military assistance, alleging he had been assaulted, seriously injured, and driven from his home. On September 29, 1879, in advance of 150 to 200 troops arriving from Fort Steele in Wyoming, the Utes attacked the office, killing Meeker and eight male employees. Meeker’s wife and daughter and the wife and two children of another agency employee were kidnapped but released 23 days later.
In the same year as the town’s founding, James Lyttle and John V. “Jack” Houston started The Meeker Herald. Lyttle was a seasoned newspaperman, having apprenticed as a 13-year-old at the Pittsburgh Gazette; in 1880 he had moved to Colorado to work for the Denver Tribune and then the Leadville…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Meeker, Colorado, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress