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Back of it is the incompetent treatment of the Indians that was responsible for the Meeker massacre. Upon the government rests the blood and outrage of the Meekers. Nor can I recall that the Indians were ever adequately punished for the crime. It is a black spot." Mrs. Meeker entered into the views and the work of her husband in this new field with sympathetic comprehension and sustaining aid.
It had been a straight young tree of thirty years or so when the Revolutionary began, and it saw the recruits of Brook Ridge march by to join Putnam, who had a camp on a neighboring hill. There were Reeds and Meekers and Burrs and Todds and Sanfords in that little detachment, and their uniforms were not very uniform, and their knapsacks none too well filled.
"Meekers have taken both rigs," objected she, weakly. "I noticed a side saddle hanging in the stable," he wheedled, "and I'll gamble I can rustle something to put it on. "I should think you'd gambled enough for one day," she quelled. "But that chunky little gray in the pasture is the horse I always ride.
Her ready camaraderie was taken for carelessness, and the candid grip of her hand was often misunderstood; and yet most of the men respected her, and some feared her. After her avowed choice of Clifford Belden they all kept aloof, for he was hot-tempered and formidably swift to avenge an insult. At the end of a week Norcross found himself restless and discontented with the Meekers.
The Honorable Alva Adams of Pueblo, Colorado, ex-Governor of the state, writing of Nathan Cook Meeker, said: "Meeker was a patriot, and no soldier upon the field of battle was more loyal, and no one in the annals of our country has ever made a more awful sacrifice than the Meekers. But I need not tell the story.
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