Image: The Meeker tragedy

Description: Reproduction of a sketch of the Meeker tragedy at the White River Ute Indian Agency, September 29th 1879, Rio Blanco County, Colorado, shows soldiers surveying the destruction from the fire and battle between Native American Utes and Nathan Meeker, his employees. Identification reads: "(A) piles of ashes, (F) the Agency Farm, (G) graves of the Agent and employés where they fell, (J) house of Sub-Chief Johnson, (M) grave of Indian Agent Meeker, (P) grave of Post, the Clerk and Postmaster." Gravestones read: "N. C. Meeker, Agt. White River, Utes, Killed By Them, Sept. 29 or 30," and "W. H. Post, Clerk Agt. Killed By Utes, Sept. 29, 30, 31, 1879." Title and lettered identification typed below photographic reproduction of an etching of a sketch by Lieutenant C. A. H. McCauley, Third U. S. Cavalry.
Title: The Meeker tragedy
Credit: Printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on December 6, 1879, p. 245. File copied from http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10030699+X-30699
Author: Lieutenant C. A. H. McCauley, Third U. S. Cavalry (Note: McCauley died in 1913.)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No