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Show Meeker Outstanding Example Of Western Community Culture MEEKER, Colo. Meeker Is known to everyone, through studies of recorded history, as the scene of the Meeker Massacre, the final big Indian uprising in the west. Many easterners visualize this "far west" country as "wild, woolly, and dangerous." There are still cowboys in this country, the men who ride the range lands looking after cattle. But they tote guns only to protect their charges from mountain Hons and other predatory animals of the high country. Too, there is much land In this beautiful section of Colorado which has not been completely settled only because it is not considered to be productive and therefore is not worth the effort required to make it able to produce crops. Meeker lies at an altitude of 6,240 feet above sea level, and boasts a fine all-year climate, cool and Inviting In the summer and Just the right temperature for multiple winter sports activities. Its streets are hard surfaced. Its houses modern, its businesses thriving and modern in goods and store design. This is no longer frontier country, but representative of the many hundreds of communities of similar size all over the nation. Meeker Is a city of homes, but one where the visitor finds genuine western hospitality and western culture. Here the visitor finds churches of most of the representative denominations which meet the requirements of spiritual life, so necessary in any thriving community. Too, there is a beautiful hospital, just recently constructed and one of the finest equipped in the state, to serve the surrounding area. Meeker fire equipment and ambulance service Is housed in the new City Hall building and U manned by the top volunteer fire department In the west. |