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Show MASSACRE. 139 not wear fine clothes while making adobe bricks, and that was the occupation of man}' during the first summer. " The women were braver than the men, and many a man who is thankful to-day to be living in Greeley, owes it to his wife. In those days, by the cactus we sat down and wept, but the magic touch of irrigation has created a transformation scene equal to any witnessed on the theatre platform. The desert has been made to blossom like the rose." The sad fate of Mr. Meeker will be found in the following brief sketch of the Ute War: CHAPTER XXXIII. MASSACRE. N. C. Meeker was for many years agricultural editor of the New York Tribune, which position he resigned in 1869, to found a colony on the Cache La Poudre, under the patronage and hearty support of Horace Greeley, whose name it bears. Under his vigorous direction it became one of the most successful and prosperous settlements of its class west of the Mississippi, and is to day one of the most beautiful in Colorado. He established and conducted the Greeley Tribune, a N. u. MEEKER. |
