Blankets cover many priceless artifacts salvaged from Colorado’s frontier history. New paint is being applied to the walls. There’s also no boiler to heat the place, closing its doors all winter. This is the current.
A Ute man once told Colorado historian Jay Sullivan it is easy to fire the first shot and hard as hell to stop shooting. Sullivan, a Meeker native, uses this grim assessment of war to.
There’s nothing spookier than walking through an old, creaky museum with the lights dimmed. Even spookier is seeing the museum’s figures come alive in the dark. Many interesting characters called Rifle home before automobiles lined.